Respiratory and Neurodegenerative Biomarker Discovery, Validation and Diagnosis
A special issue of BioTech (ISSN 2673-6284).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2019) | Viewed by 228
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ample is the literature evidence that pinpoints neurodegenerative disorders as one of the greatest threats to public health. On the other hand, respiratory diseases also affect humanity, globally, with lung cancer and chronic lung diseases being responsible for extensive morbidity and mortality. Despite both being life-threatening diseases, affected patients often experience significant delay before a definitive diagnosis if symptoms are mild or overlap with other disorders. It follows that an accurate and early diagnosis of pathology would be of crucial importance for these individuals. Recent advances in genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics have generated many candidate biomarkers with clinical value. Being potentially useful, along the whole spectrum of the disease process, biomarkers have gained immense scientific interest as they can be helpful in improving patient outcomes and survival rates. However, despite an explosion of potential biomarkers in diagnosis, prediction, and prognosis, due to the lack of a validation process, only a few of them have made the transition into clinical practice.
The aim of this Special Issue is to attract contributions in the field of neurodegenerative and respiratory pathologies with a special emphasis on the discovery and validation of biomarkers that could be useful for their diagnosis.
Prof. Dr. Paolo Iadarola
Dr. Simona Viglio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomarkers
- pulmonary disorders
- neurodegenerative disorders
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