MAPK3 and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A total of 117 common targets between DEGs of IPF and drug targets were identified and included in the PPI network, in which AKT1, MAPK3, HSP90AA1, VEGFA, CASP3, JUN, HIF1A, CCND1, PTGS2, and MDM2 were predicted as key targets.