Airway inflammation in COPD: progress to precision medicine

C Brightling, N Greening - European Respiratory Journal, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a significant cause of morbidity and
mortality worldwide, and its prevalence is increasing. Airway inflammation is a consistent …

The contribution of small airway obstruction to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

JC Hogg, PD Paré, TL Hackett - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The hypothesis that the small conducting airways were the major site of obstruction to airflow
in normal lungs was introduced by Rohrer in 1915 and prevailed until Weibel introduced a …

[HTML][HTML] Matched-comparative modeling of normal and diseased human airway responses using a microengineered breathing lung chip

KH Benam, R Novak, J Nawroth, M Hirano-Kobayashi… - Cell systems, 2016 - cell.com
Smoking represents a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
but it is difficult to characterize smoke-induced injury responses under physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Lung ageing and COPD: is there a role for ageing in abnormal tissue repair?

CA Brandsma, M de Vries, R Costa… - European …, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death
worldwide, with increasing prevalence, in particular in the elderly. COPD is characterised by …

Exhaustion of airway basal progenitor cells in early and established chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

M Ghosh, YE Miller, I Nakachi, JB Kwon… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Up to 40% of smokers develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
over a period that spans decades. Despite the importance of COPD, much remains to be …

TLR7 promotes smoke-induced experimental lung damage through the activity of mast cell tryptase

G Liu, TJ Haw, MR Starkey, AM Philp, S Pavlidis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) is known for eliciting immunity against single-stranded
RNA viruses, and is increased in both human and cigarette smoke (CS)-induced …

The AGE-RAGE axis and RAGE genetics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

A Sharma, S Kaur, M Sarkar, BC Sarin… - Clinical Reviews in …, 2021 - Springer
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous group of lung diseases
limiting the airflow due to narrowing of airways, chronic bronchitis and emphysema that …

Airway bacteria drive a progressive COPD-like phenotype in mice with polymeric immunoglobulin receptor deficiency

BW Richmond, RM Brucker, W Han, RH Du… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Mechanisms driving persistent airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) are incompletely understood. As secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) …

The role of the small airways in the pathophysiology of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

M Bonini, OS Usmani - Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), represent a major social and economic burden for worldwide health systems …

β-catenin, Twist and Snail: Transcriptional regulation of EMT in smokers and COPD, and relation to airflow obstruction

MQ Mahmood, EH Walters, SD Shukla, S Weston… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
COPD is characterised by poorly reversible airflow obstruction usually due to cigarette
smoking. The transcription factor clusters of β-catenin/Snail1/Twist has been implicated in …