Thickness of the blood-gas barrier in premature and 1-day-old newborn rabbit lungs

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 285, Issue 1 29-1, 2003, Pages

  Fu, Zhenxing ^a   Heldt, Gregory P ^a   West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary stress; Lung morphology; Pulmonary edema; Pulmonary hemorrhage; Stress failure

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTERSTITIUM; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STRESS;

EID: 0038338398     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00366.2002     Document Type: Article

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