Table 3.

Non-coding RNAs investigated in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and bronchial brushing (BB) in three examples of respiratory diseases. miRNAs are classified accordingly to their reported nature as disease-differentiating or associated with the clinical parameter.

Disease	miRNA			lncRNA	circRNA	Sources
	Differentiating		Clinically Correlated/Associated
	(↑)	(↓)
Cystic fibrosis	miR-145 miR-155 miR-101 miR-223 miR-494 miR-221 miR-143-5p	miR-31 miR-126 miR-331-3p miR-362-5p let-7b miR-17 miR-203	miR-451a miR-663	XIST TLR8-as1 MALAT1 HOTAIR	No reports	miRNA: [64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74] lncRNA: [75]
Asthma	miR-1268 miR-658 let-7a ### let-7b ### let-7c ### miR-26a ### miR146a ### miR-31 ### miR-150 miR-152 miR-375 let-7f miR-487b miR-181c miR-1246 miR-663a miR-1248 miR-1915-3p miR-665 miR-1268a miR-1207-5p miR-221 miR-206 ##	let-7a miR-21 miR-26a miR-99a miR-200c miR-200b miR-203 miR-107 miR-7c miR-31-5p miR-99a-5p miR-29a-3p miR-449a miR-106b-5p miR-19b-3p miR-27b-3p miR-449b-5p miR-200a-3p miR-27a-3p miR-29c-3p miR-34b-5p miR-34c-5p miR-181b-5p miR-218-5p miR-30a-3p miR-146a miR-206	miR-625-3p miR-202-5p miR-202-3p miR-568 miR-151a-5p miR-615-3p miR-10b-5p miR-151a-3p miR-224-5p miR-581 miR-9-5p miR-148b	ZNF667-AS1 (lncRNA MORT)	circZNF652 hsa_circ_0001585 hsa_circ_0078031 hsa_circ_0000552	miRNA: [49,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90] lncRNA: [92] circRNA: [62,91]
Interstitial lung diseases	miR-150 miR-146a miR-192 miR-221 miR-24 # miR-27a # miR-34a # miR-125b # miR-146b # miR-155 # miR-22-3p miR-320a-3p miR-320b miR-24-3p	miR-202 miR-204 miR-222 miR-15b miR-130b # miR-150 # miR-30a-5p miR-375-3p ### miR-200a-3p miR-200b-3p miR-141-3p miR-423-5p miR-29a miR-185	miR-155 let-7c miR-146a miR-150	No reports	No reports	miRNA: [93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100]

^# specific local airway expression in comparison to peripheral; ^## endotype specific expression; ^### disease-specific expression pattern (in contrast to healthy controls or different pulmonary disease).