Mechanical ventilation is an essential lifesaving therapy in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that may cause ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) through a positive feedback between altered ...

Over inhalation, oxygen-rich air is drawn into the alveolar cavity by the expansion of the alveolar volume. The volume expansion results in an increase in the alveolar surface area. Because septal ...

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) often have obstructive lung function abnormalities which could be due to asthma or increased pulmonary blood volume; it is important to determine the underlying ...

In this paper, the authors have leveraged Single-cell RNA sequencing of the various stages of evolution of lung adenocarcinoma to identify the population of macrophages that contribute to tumor ...

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Department of Orthodontics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Department of Radiology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, ...