Inflammation and Immunity in Lung Disease
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Biochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cytokine signaling; unfolded protein response; transcriptional control; T helper cell; immunity and inflammation
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Dear Colleagues,
Many pathogenic, environmental, and genetic factors lead to lung inflammation, affecting lung function. This Specific Issue covers a variety of lung diseases, including but not limited to pulmonary infection, asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, and lung cancer. These conditions can affect different parts of the lungs and cause breathing difficulties, coughing, and chest pain. Specified immune responses to pathogenic invasion and environmental agents play an important role in host defense and pathology, where excessive, inappropriate, and/or prolonged inflammation damages lung tissue and impairs lung function. Genetic deficiencies (such as the CFTR gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis) and lung cancer compromise the host defense machinery and harm lung tissue integrity. Cytokine release syndrome, seen in uncontrolled systemic inflammation, e.g., systemic lupus erythematosus, impacts the functionality of multiple organs, including the lungs. Local and remote signals from the nervous, metabolic, intestinal, and endocrine systems influence pulmonary immunity, attracting broad interest.
Dr. Xuexian Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lung
- infection
- inflammation
- host defense
- cytokine release syndrome
- genetic deficiency
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