Topic · Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine · Medicine

Occupational and environmental lung diseases

OpenAlex topic; a paper is listed when OpenAlex scores it at least 0.5 for this topic.

2 papers

YBX3 overexpression in mesothelioma drives aberrant cell proliferation

Angela Rubio, Robert F. Harvey, Andrew Craxton, Mark R. Southwood, Catherine Ficken, Catarina de Matos Ferraz Franco, Lajos Kalmar, Gorettu Munoz, Ian R. Powley, Stephan Kamrad, Rui Guan, David Fernández‐Antorán, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, John P. C. Le Quesne, Marion MacFarlane, Anne E. Willis

This study identifies YBX3 as an oncoprotein in mesothelioma that drives cell proliferation through SLC7A5/LAT1-mediated amino acid uptake and shows JPH203 as a potential therapeutic agent.

Cell Death and Disease · Oct 30, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Crystalline silica exposure causes latent biomechanical abnormalities along the cardiopulmonary axis

Meredith S. Gwin, Jack Di Palo, Anthony A. Fung, Rira Choi, Péter Hermán, Alexandria Regan, Aishani Nagamalla, Asad A Syed, Theodore Sandow, Ying Sun, Sydney L. Bluestein, Buqu Hu, Yo Sep Shin, Keshav Harpavat, Clemente J. Britto, , Edward P. Manning

This study shows that a single crystalline silica exposure causes subclinical cardiopulmonary abnormalities in mice, with sex-dependent effects on lung mechanics and transcriptomic responses.

bioRxiv · Oct 24, 2026 · PreprintPhysiology