It's not all smooth muscle: Non-smooth-muscle elements in control of resistance to airflow

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2009, Pages 437-462

  Bossé, Ynuk ^a   Riesenfeld, Erik P ^b   Paré, Peter D ^a   Irvin, Charles G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway closure; Airway heterogeneity; Airway hyperresponsiveness; Airway obliteration; Airway occlusion; Airway remodeling; Airway resistance; Airway parenchymal interdependence; Anatomy; Lung imaging; Physiology; Structure function

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY REMODELING; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRONCHUS MUCUS; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CARTILAGE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EDEMA; ELASTIC FIBER; GAS FLOW; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LAMINA PROPRIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS SURFACE TENSION; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG VOLUME; MAST CELL; MUCUS SECRETION; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SUBMUCOSA; TIDAL VOLUME; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; LUNG; MUCOSA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; LUNG; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77951912099     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-021909-135851     Document Type: Review

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