of the lung parenchyma. Which in turn causes lung stiffness, making it difficult to breathe and eventually leading to poor oxygenation of the blood. The effects of ILD are chronic and permanent.

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 ...