Isolation, cultivation, and application of human alveolar epithelial cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 806, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-42

  Daum, Nicole ^a   Kuehn, Anna ^a   Hein, Stephanie ^b   Schaefer, Ulrich F ^b   Huwer, Hanno ^c   Lehr, Claus Michael ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology   (Germany)

^c Heart Center Voelklingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alveolar epithelial cells; ATI; ATII; hAEpC; Primary culture; Transepithelial electrical resistance , Pulmonary drug delivery , PADDOCC1; Transwell Snapwell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SEPARATION; HUMANS; PNEUMOCYTES; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE;

EID: 82355183910     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-367-7_3     Document Type: Article

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