Compliance of peripheral airways deduced from morphometry

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2373-2381

  Okazawa, Mitsushi ^a   Paré, Peter D ^b   Lambert, Rodney K ^c  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Airway mechanics; Carbachol; Elastic buckling; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG PRESSURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0033674692     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2000.89.6.2373     Document Type: Article

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