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Studies investigating the mechanisms responsible for the development and progression of respiratory diseases conducted in recent years but also the state-of-the-art and increasingly sophisticated technologies that successfully allow us to gain an insight into the structure of the lungs and the microcosm of cells and tissues have become a driving force for the key changes in contemporary opinions on the processes which eventually shape the clinical picture and complaints that prompt the patient to seek a pulmonologist consultation [...]