Structure-function studies of blood and air capillaries in chicken lung using 3D electron microscopy

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-209

  West, John B ^a   Fu, Zhenxing ^a   Deerinck, Thomas J ^a   Mackey, Mason R ^a   Obayashi, James T ^a   Ellisman, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron tomography; Epithelial bridges; Epithelial plates; Serial block face scanning electron microscopy; Stress failure

Indexed keywords

AIR CAPILLARY; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY WALL; EPITHELIAL BRIDGE; EPITHELIAL PLATE; EPITHELIUM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LUNG CAPILLARY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-AIR BARRIER; CAPILLARIES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICKENS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PULMONARY CIRCULATION;

EID: 75149127617     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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