Molecular Advances in Lung Diseases
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: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 34173
Special Issue Editor
Interests: lung cancers; lymphangioleiomyomatosis; metabolic regulation; Wnt signaling; aging; immune system and chemotherapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Pulmonary pathology includes a wide spectrum of both neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases. Such pulmonary pathologies are often the result of the unique connection between the lung tissue and the outside world. Every breath brings in the lung infectious and noxious agents, organic and inorganic particles that can affect the lung unfiltered and can cause pathologies. Despite the various defence mechanisms present in the lung, serious diseases still develop. Any damage to the pulmonary tissue system due to inherited genetic diseases, acquired mutation induced neoplastic diseases, infections or ineffective immune mechanisms have a clear molecular basis, even if the scientific and medical community is not always aware of the complex connections.
Better understanding of diseases affecting both pulmonary morphology and mechanism of diseases is required for the development of better preventive measures, identification of diagnostic markers and novel therapies that are more effective.
To make the leap from the unknown to translation of scientific research of lung diseases, every morsel of new information counts. The present special issue awaits such scientific research articles and complex reviews that describe molecular advances in understanding of lung diseases to expand the opportunity to catalogue, connect and prepare the results for medical translation.
Prof. Judit E Pongracz
Guest Editor
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