Background Inflammation in the lung is the body's natural response to injury. It acts to
remove harmful stimuli such as pathogens, irritants, and damaged cells and initiate the …

The chronic lung diseases, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are
common affecting over 500 million people worldwide and causing substantial morbidity and …

Within a time span of only a few months, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has managed to spread
across the world. This virus can spread by close contact, which includes large droplet spray …

The failure rate for the translation of drugs from animal testing to human treatments remains
at over 92%, where it has been for the past few decades. The majority of these failures are …

Chronic airflow limitation is the common denominator of patients with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it is not possible to predict morbidity and mortality of …

For more than 50 years, small airways disease has been considered a key feature of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and a major cause of airway obstruction. Both …

BACKGROUND Information about the size, airway location, and longitudinal behavior of
mucus plugs in asthma is needed to understand their role in mechanisms of airflow …

Biomedical research and clinical practice are struggling to cope with the growing complexity
that the progress of health care involves. The most challenging diseases, those with the …

Background Pulmonary lobectomy has been a well-established curative treatment method
for localized lung cancer. After left upper pulmonary lobectomy, the upward displacement of …

In this article, we present an X-ray tomographic imaging method that is well suited for
pulmonary disease studies in animal models to resolve the full pathway from gas intake to …