Chronic pulmonary diseases such as asthma, COPD, and Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are
significant causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Currently, there is no radical …

Versican is a proteoglycan that has many different roles in tissue homeostasis and
inflammation. The biochemical structure comprises four different types of the core protein …

Background Diesel exhaust (DE) is a major source of ultrafine particulate matters (PM) in
ambient air and contaminates many occupational settings. Airway remodeling assessed …

Respiratory diseases, both acute and chronic, are reported to be the leading cause of
morbidity and mortality, affecting millions of people globally, leading to high socio-economic …

Airway remodeling is an umbrella term for structural changes in the conducting airways that
occur in chronic inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma or chronic obstructive …

Introduction: The prevalence and awareness of bronchiectasis not related to cystic fibrosis
(CF) is increasing and it is now recognized as a major cause of respiratory morbidity …

Precision medicine offers better treatment options and improved survival for cancer patients
based on individual variability. As the success of precision medicine depends on robust …

Background The use of quantitative CT analysis in children is limited by lack of normal
values of lung parenchymal attenuation. These characteristics are important because …

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a severe and progressive respiratory
disease with poor prognosis. Despite the positive outcomes from recent clinical trials, there …

Abstract Background CF-CT and PRAGMA-CF are commonly used scoring methods to
quantify the severity of bronchiectasis (BE) and airway wall thickening (AWT) on chest CTs …