Advances in Lung Inflammation, Injury, and Repair (Second Edition)
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 405
Special Issue Editor
Interests: acute lung injury; acute respiratory distress syndrome; lung; inflammation; respiratory failure; hyperoxia; mechanical ventilation; cytokines; ion channels; potassium; calcium
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Dear Colleagues,
This is a continued series on the hot topic of “Advances in Lung Inflammation, Injury, and Repair”. Our first Special Issue on this topic received interesting contributions and discussions, which may be viewed through the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/Lung_Research.
Lung inflammation, injury, and repair are pathophysiological processes shared by multiple pulmonary disease entities. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the catastrophic consequences associated with the dysregulation of these processes and our limited understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms, which is reflected in the limited therapeutic armamentarium currently available for our patients. In many cases, these pathophysiological findings are grouped together as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but a substantial number of patients suffering from similarly dysregulated lung inflammation, injury, and repair mechanisms are not meeting ARDS criteria and yet are still at high risk for poor outcomes and short- and long-term morbidity and mortality.
To address these challenges, within the IJMS section of “Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics”, we are proposing a Special Issue titled “Advances in Lung Inflammation, Injury, and Repair (Second Edition)” to create a state-of-the-art work product summarizing our current understanding and knowledge gaps in this field and propose future approaches, novel targets, and next-generation experimental models. Since lung injury can be triggered by a variety of insults, including (but not limited to) viral and bacterial infections, sepsis, trauma, blood transfusion, gastric content aspiration, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, toxic inhalations, medications, and autoimmune processes, this interdisciplinary collection of manuscripts aims to provide a comprehensive resource on molecular pathology, diagnostics, and therapeutics in the fields of lung inflammation, injury, and repair for a large audience, including research and medical trainees, pulmonary physiologists and pathologists, general practitioners and pulmonary/critical care specialists, nurses, and respiratory therapists.
Dr. Andreas Schwingshackl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lung
- inflammation
- injury
- repair
- fibrosis
- diagnostics
- therapeutics
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
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