Through well-defined expansion and differentiation approaches, the team has successfully established mature nasal mucosa, airway and alveolar organoids. The pioneering respiratory organoid culture ...

Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia Minderoo Centre − Plastics and Human Health, ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ...

Conclusion: This study provides evidence that smoking enhances PAD2 expression in the bronchial mucosal and alveolar compartment, with consequent generation of citrullinated proteins in the latter.

Background: Idiopathic pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) has recently been recognised as a disease of impaired alveolar macrophage function caused by neutralising anti-granulocyte-macrophage colony ...

Department of Cardiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. (B.C.-C., N.A.V.G., N.L.P., L.P.E., V.S.K.S., A.M.O., J.L., G.M., O.H., A.D., S ...

Ozone itself is a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Hence, increasing ground-level ozone contributes to global warming. On the other hand, a warming climate favors the formation and accumulation of ...

The expansive alveolar surface area facilitates drug absorption and lowers the local required dosage, thereby minimizing potential side effects. However, the efficacy of inhaled gene therapy can be ...

Correspondence to Professor Guy Boeckxstaens, Translational Research in Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism and Ageing (Chrometa), KU Leuven, Leuven, ...