
Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15
Published: Nov. 8, 2024
Moving from the earlier periods in which lungs were believed to represent sterile environments, our knowledge on lung microbiota has dramatically increased, first descriptions of microbial communities inhabiting healthy and definition ecological rules that regulate its composition, identification changes occur pathological conditions. Despite limitations as a microbiome reservoir due low biomass abundance, defining composition function upper lower airways may help understanding impact local homeostasis disruption diseases. In particular, metabolic immune significance microbes, their presence or lack thereof, health disease states could be valuable development novel druggable targets treatments. Next-generation sequencing identified intricate inter-microbe association networks comprise true mutualistic antagonistic direct indirect relationships respiratory tract. this review, tripartite interaction bacteria, fungi mammalian host is addressed provide an integrated view microbial-host cross-talk diseases perspective.
Language: Английский