Postnatal growth of tracheobronchial airways of Sprague-Dawley rats

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 218, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 717-725

  Lee, Dongyoub ^a   Srirama, Praveen K ^a   Wallis, Christopher ^b   Wexler, Anthony S ^a,b  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography image; Conducting airways; Lung growth; Sprague Dawley rats

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG MODEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ANIMALS; BRONCHI; LUNG; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA;

RATTUS;

EID: 79955524815     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2011.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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