New Drug Development for Respiratory and Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 217
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lung disease; Inflammation; regeneration; Infection
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Dear Colleagues,
Respiratory disease is characterized as lung tissue injury and respiratory dysfunction, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia and tuberculosis, lung cancer, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, and many other respiratory disorders. Respiratory diseases affect millions of people around the world every year, but the detailed mechanisms of respiratory diseases are not well understood.
Inflammatory disease is a defensive response of the body to certain injury factors, which affects multiple organs such as the lungs, liver, brain, cardiovascular system, digestion system, etc. Inflammatory diseases can be defined as infective or non-infective in origin and are characterized by the activation and accumulation of immune and non-immune cells that protect the host from infective and non-infective injury and stimulate the repair of damaged tissues. Most respiratory diseases result in severe inflammatory responses in the lungs. Due to the limited effective pharmaceutic and therapeutic approaches, millions of people still struggle with inflammatory diseases.
Thus, understanding the molecular mechanism of respiratory and inflammatory diseases and developing novel drugs are urgently needed. This Special Issue plans to give an overview of the most recent advances in the field of molecular mechanisms and drug developments for respiratory and inflammatory diseases.
Dr. Longshuang Huang
Prof. Dr. Feng Qian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sepsis
- acute lung injury
- pulmonary fibrosis
- asthma
- infection diseases
- inflammation
- drug development
- respiratory diseases
- inflammatory bowel disease
- atherosclerosis
- rheumatoid arthritis
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