Aerosol measurement of airspace diameter correlates with morphometry in normal and papain-exposed air dried lungs

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 425-441

  Rosenthal, Frank S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airspace size; Animal model; Effective airspace diameter; Emphysema; Lung; Mean linear intercept; Morphometry; Papain

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PAPAIN; SEBACIC ACID;

AEROSOL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; DOG; EMPHYSEMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEPOSIT; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VOLUMETRY;

AEROSOLS; AIR; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; EMPHYSEMA; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; PAPAIN; PARTICLE SIZE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0032795287     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019021499270178     Document Type: Article

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