Distal airspace enlargement in the fawn-hooded rat: Influences of aging and alveolar wall destruction

Respiration

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 78-86

  Morio, Yoshiteru ^a   Muramatsu, Masashi ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhisa ^a   Teramoto, Shinji ^b   Oka, Teruaki ^b   Fukuchi, Yoshinosuke ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Airspace enlargement; Alveolar wall destruction; Fawn hooded rat; Lung hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HYPERTROPHY; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG CAPACITY; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VOLUME; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAT;

AGING; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; LUNG; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0035104189     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050467     Document Type: Article

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