Although the above research did not explicitly elucidate the interaction between mitophagy and glycolysis, another study found that activation of Parkin-mediated mitophagy could prevent TGF-β1-mediated FB proliferation and MFB activation by attenuating FB glycolysis process, thus inhibiting fibrosis in IPF (Wang W. et al., 2023). Here, TGFB1 is linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.