New Therapeutic Approaches and Insights for the Treatment and Understanding of Lung Disease

A special issue of Diseases (ISSN 2079-9721). This special issue belongs to the section "Respiratory Diseases".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 2636

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Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK
Interests: innate immune pesponse in the lung; acute and chronic disease; cystic fibrosis (CF); chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD); acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

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Dear Colleagues,

Lung disease affects a large portion of the World’s population and is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Although a number of new treatments are now available, e.g., cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators for the treatment of cystic fibrosis lung disease, there remains a significant gap in the development of new treatments for other major lung diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In this Special Issue, the authors outline some of the new developments in the pre-clinical arena which are leading to the generation of potentially exciting new treatments for lung disease. In addition, new mechanisms of disease are being uncovered in ground-breaking research that will herald the development of the next generation of new therapies to reduce the burden of lung disease worldwide.

Prof. Dr. Cliff Taggart
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Acute lung disease
  • Lung repair
  • Inflammation

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Serum Biomarkers in a Radiological Pattern of Non-Fibrotic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Implications for Mechanistic Difference and Differential Diagnosis
by Takayuki Takimoto and Yukihiro Nakamura
Diseases 2022, 10(3), 36; https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases10030036 - 27 Jun 2022
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Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a consequence of immune-mediated reactions caused by recurrent exposure to environmental agents. Recently, clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of HP were published and increased interest in HP. On the other hand, novel therapies have recently emerged for various [...] Read more.
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is a consequence of immune-mediated reactions caused by recurrent exposure to environmental agents. Recently, clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis of HP were published and increased interest in HP. On the other hand, novel therapies have recently emerged for various diseases, and the management of drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) has become increasingly important. Among DRP, the HP pattern (DRP-HP) shows small, poorly defined centrilobular nodules with or without widespread areas of ground-glass opacity or lobular areas of decreased attenuation and vascularity. A similar radiological pattern of non-fibrotic HP can be induced, irrespective of inhalation (non-fibrotic HP) or intravenous administration (DRP-HP). However, their difference has not been well described, although the distribution of lesions in the lungs was slightly different between these two conditions. In this review, we focus on serum biomarkers of lung epithelial cells in order to investigate the difference between DRP-HP and non-fibrotic HP (common-HP). Serum levels of Krebs von den Lungen 6 (KL-6) might be relatively lower (occasionally normal) in DRP-HP than in common-HP, implying a mechanistic difference. KL-6 could be useful in discriminating between DRP and non-fibrotic HP (common type). Full article
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