How to make an alveolus

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 483-485

  Weibel, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG STRUCTURE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; REGENERATION;

EID: 42949127667     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00003308     Document Type: Editorial

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