Infection with SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19) pandemic, causes respiratory problems and multifaceted organ dysfunction. A crucial …

Post-acute COVID-19 sequelae, commonly known as long COVID, encompasses a range of
systemic symptoms experienced by a significant number of COVID-19 survivors. The …

Progressive lung function decline is a hallmark of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD). Airway dysbiosis occurs in COPD, but whether it contributes to disease progression …

Rationale: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, and often fatal
disorder. Two US Food and Drug Administration–approved antifibrotic drugs, nintedanib and …

The role of gut microbiota in regulating the intestinal homeostasis, as well as the
pathogenesis of severe acute pancreatitis-associated lung injury (PALI) is widely …

Intestinal fibrosis is one of the most threatening complications of Crohn's disease. It occurs in
more than a third of patients with this condition, is associated with increased morbidity and …

Neutrophils are important effector cells of the innate immune response that fight pathogens
by phagocytosis and degranulation. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are released into …

Externalized histones erupt from the nucleus as extracellular traps, are associated with
several acute and chronic lung disorders, but their implications in the molecular …

Simple Summary The survival rates for patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma are very
low. This dismal prognosis is due in part to late detection and early development of …

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), released by polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs),
exert a robust antimicrobial function in infectious diseases such as sepsis. NETs also …