Inflammatory Airway Diseases: Diagnosis, Pathology, Molecular Mechanisms and Treatment Options

Dear Colleagues,

Acute and chronic airway inflammation are hallmarks of several pulmonary diseases including, but not limited to, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, cystic fibrosis (CF) and non-CF bronchiectasis.

While airway inflammation can be the natural response to harmful stimuli such as pathogens, airway injury and irritants and initiate a healing process, it can also carry a pathological role and promote sustained inflammation and chronic inflammation, which has been recognized as inflammation in aging-related lung diseases.

Despite ongoing research in this topic, diagnosis can be tricky, especially when dealing with overlapping disease entities, the pathomechanisms of multiple of these diseases, especially the role of inflammation, are not well understood and most of those diseases do not have curative treatment strategies with persistent and heavy symptom burden for all patients. Therefore, it is particularly important to explore the pathological mechanisms and molecular treatments of inflammatory airway diseases.

This Special Issue invites authors to submit original research articles, review articles and case reports that summarize current molecular research advances in diagnostic, prevention, and therapy of inflammatory airway diseases. The goal of this Special Issue is to present new ideas and data to help characterize those diseases better and identify potential novel treatment strategies.

Dr. Stefanie Krick
Guest Editor

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• inflammatory airway diseases
• asthma
• COPD
• anti-inflammatory