ILD: Interstitial lung disease. Proteomics targets the elucidation of the disease mechanisms and detection of new biomarkers for early diagnosis and/or differential diagnosis of a specific disease.

The discovery of a lung-specific autoantigen, the loss of tolerance to which can result in autoimmune-mediated lung disease, has provided an explanation for the common pulmonary complications of ...

In COPD, the lung may express even greater variability, since the airways may be affected even more than the parenchyma. Emphysema is patchy at the same time, while the airways and local areas in ...