ARTN and pulmonary fibrosis: Pancreatic fibrosis and pulmonary fibrosis have some similarities in pathological features and mechanisms, which are caused by repeated damage of epithelial cells, leading to the formation of scars in tissue.[40] The results of bioinformatics analysis in this research illustrated that ARTN was increasingly expressed in IPF tissues, and ARTN had a negative correlation with the prognosis of IPF.