LAMB2 and pulmonary fibrosis: Research on bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice corroborates that increased collagen I deposition, a phenomenon observed alongside other ECM components like laminin and type IV collagen, can be indicative of pulmonary fibrosis development (Teles-Grilo et al., 2005; Lee et al., 2014; Morales-Nebreda et al., 2015).