In silico modeling of airway mechanics

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 125-129

  Winkler, Tilo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ASTHMA; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING MUSCLE; BREATHING PATTERN; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHODILATATION; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER MODEL; DRUG RESEARCH; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATION; HUMAN; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROCESS MODEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; TIDAL VOLUME; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

EID: 42049112065     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2007.12.002     Document Type: Review

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