Human exposure to toxic particles drives various diseases. Examples include gout, an acute arthritis driven by monosodium ...

Panel B shows chronic obstructive bronchiolitis, with thickening of the airway wall and infiltration with lymphocytes, macrophages ... are α 1-antitrypsin in lung parenchyma and airway-epithelium ...

They showed that lung vascular disease is preceded by inflammation. Later, they found that specific subtypes of macrophages ...

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of ...

“This research helps advance the goal of the pulmonary community to harness macrophages in the pursuit of achieving lung repair.” Researchers initially compared macrophage activity in two ...

New discovery on the causes of PAP lung disease can also offer solutions ... produced and cleared from the alveoli. Alveolar macrophages, the immune scavenger cells of the lungs, degrade and ...

This dysfunction resulted in disruption of the macrophage’s ability to function properly, leading to persistent inflammation and lung scarring, key contributors to long COVID symptoms.

The authors of the study, from different national and international centers, observed that a higher amount of this protein in macrophages is associated with a worse prognosis in lung cancer patients.

With age, senescent cells become detrimental to tissues. Mayo Clinic scientists have observed this phenomenon in the lung alveoli, where senescent macrophages accumulated in aging tissue and in early ...