"Lung" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.
| Descriptor ID |
D008168
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A04.411
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| Concept/Terms |
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 1997 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 1998 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 1999 | 9 | 12 | 21 |
| 2000 | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| 2001 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2002 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2003 | 7 | 15 | 22 |
| 2004 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2005 | 16 | 14 | 30 |
| 2006 | 5 | 21 | 26 |
| 2007 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2008 | 9 | 7 | 16 |
| 2009 | 11 | 17 | 28 |
| 2010 | 11 | 13 | 24 |
| 2011 | 16 | 19 | 35 |
| 2012 | 14 | 16 | 30 |
| 2013 | 17 | 18 | 35 |
| 2014 | 17 | 19 | 36 |
| 2015 | 20 | 15 | 35 |
| 2016 | 11 | 19 | 30 |
| 2017 | 21 | 9 | 30 |
| 2018 | 24 | 16 | 40 |
| 2019 | 28 | 19 | 47 |
| 2020 | 28 | 38 | 66 |
| 2021 | 25 | 35 | 60 |
| 2022 | 4 | 49 | 53 |
| 2023 | 4 | 49 | 53 |
| 2024 | 8 | 29 | 37 |
| 2025 | 14 | 19 | 33 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lung" by people in Profiles.
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Clinical Implementation of Inspiratory-Expiratory Chest CT: Defining Quality Criteria for Diagnostic Quality and Detection of Concurrent FEV1 Decline following Lung Transplantation. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2025 Oct; 7(5):e240468.
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Association Between Poor Olfaction and Lower Pulmonary Function in Older Adults. Chest. 2026 Mar; 169(3):723-731.
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Pregnancy Loss Associated with COVID-19 Infection: Associations with Detection of Viral RNA in Placental and Fetal Tissue. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2025 Nov-Dec; 28(6):460-468.
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Quantitative Computed Tomography Measures of Lung Fibrosis and Outcomes in the National Lung Screening Trial. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Sep; 22(9):1314-1320.
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Development and preclinical evaluation of next-generation ?sigH-based live candidate vaccines. JCI Insight. 2025 Oct 08; 10(19).
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Characteristics Associated with Lung Function Trajectories: An Analysis of the SPIROMICS Cohort. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Aug; 22(8):1165-1175.
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Single-cell transcriptome analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage during early SARS-CoV-2 infection. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Sep 02; 13(9):e0271524.
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Comparison of Diagnostic Bronchoscopy Single-Arm Trials Using an Advanced Optimization Approach for Indirect Comparisons with Partial Individual Patient Data. Respiration. 2025; 104(12):940-949.
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Integrating pulmonary and systemic transcriptomes to characterize lung injury after pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant. JCI Insight. 2025 Sep 09; 10(17).
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Genetic risk for adult obstructive lung function and its early life associations. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2025 Oct; 156(4):937-947.