Drug delivery to the lungs: Challenges and opportunities

SP Newman - Therapeutic delivery, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… Neutrophil DNA present in CF sputum can be depolymerized by inhaled rhDNase, resulting
in significant improvements in both lung function and symptoms [64,66]. The introduction of …

Current status and future opportunities in lung precision medicine research with a focus on biomarkers. An American Thoracic Society/National Heart, Lung, and Blood …

AC Wu, JP Kiley, PJ Noel, S Amur… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
… Common challenges in biomarker development for rare lung diseases include limited … both
better lung function response in the sirolimus group and more rapid lung function decline in …

Systemic delivery of biotherapeutics through the lung: opportunities and challenges for improved lung absorption

M Sakagami - Therapeutic delivery, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… , lung function and risk of lung cancer, in addition to clinical therapeutic benefits and
patient/market acceptance Citation[9,86–88]. Hence, new biotherapeutics for systemic delivery via …

Pulmonary physiology: future directions for lung function testing in COPD

V Brusasco, G Barisione, E Crimi - Respirology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… with good approximation from measurements of lung mechanics and gas exchange, in …
At the same time, methods for lung function testing have been refined and seem promising …

Trajectories of lung function in infants and children: setting a course for lifelong lung health

BK Jordan, CT McEvoy - Pediatrics, 2020 - publications.aap.org
lung function tests decades later. We will focus on perinatal factors and outline progress and
opportunities … life factors in lifelong lung trajectory, but important challenges and questions …

Defining and promoting pediatric pulmonary health: assessing lung function and structure

EM DeBoer, WJ Morgan, L Quiros-Alcala… - …, 2023 - publications.aap.org
… This report details the key gaps and opportunities regarding lung function and structure (Table
1)… A fundamental challenge in pediatric respiratory research is the ability to reliably assess …

Radiation therapy planning of thoracic tumors: A review of challenges associated with lung toxicities and potential perspectives of gallium-68 lung PET/CT imaging

F Lucia, M Rehn, F Blanc-Béguin, PY Le Roux - Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Accordingly, a current major challenge of thoracic RT is to better preserve lung function and
… We will also review the new opportunities and challenges arising from the integration of V/Q …

Lung health in Africa: challenges and opportunities in the context of COVID-19

OB Ozoh, BH Mbatchou Ngahane… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
… widely implement vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is a challenge. However, within these
challenges also lies opportunities for the continent to leverage this health crisis to improve the …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing lung cancer screening in the real world: opportunity, challenges and solutions

RJ Optican, C Chiles - Translational lung cancer research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… to a missed opportunity for early identification of lung cancer. We now know from PLCO data
that, in individuals with a 30+ pack-year smoking history, the hazard ratio for lung cancer in …

Targeting EGFR signalling in chronic lung disease: therapeutic challenges and opportunities

S Vallath, RE Hynds, L Succony… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… Disappointingly, almost half of the patients in the treatment arm of this study did not tolerate
the trial dosing regimen and exhibited a decline in lung function parameters for unknown …