Climate chamber for environmentally controlled laboratory airflow experiments

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 157-163

  Even Tzur, Nurit ^a   Zaretsky, Uri ^a   Grinberg, Orly ^a   Davidovich, Tomer ^a   Kloog, Yoel ^a   Wolf, Michael ^a,b   Elad, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air liquid interface (ALI); environmental chamber; mucin secretion; nasal epithelial cells; respiratory airflow

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

AIR; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCLIMATE; NOSE MUCOSA; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE;

AIR MOVEMENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; NASAL MUCOSA; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954767624     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/THC-2010-0577     Document Type: Article

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