Chronic effects of mechanical force on airways

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2006, Pages 563-583

  Tschumperlin, Daniel J ^a   Drazen, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway remodeling; Epithelium; Mechanotransduction; Morphogenesis; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ASTHMA; CELL INTERACTION; EXPOSURE; FORCE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33645973265     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.68.072304.113102     Document Type: Review

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