the National Natural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo.19972042);the Juan de la Cierva Program,Spain
Trachea is the unique passage for air to flow in and out. Its tone is of importance for the respiration system. However, investigation on how tracheal tone changes due to asthma is limited. Aiming at studying how the ...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.19972042).
This paper introduces a new method, termed Twice Cutting, for obtaining the zero-stress states of cartilage and muscle of trachea. The method applied cuts at the two junc- tions of tracheal cartilage and muscle perpen...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19972042).
The no-load state and zero-stress state of the normal rat trachea were analyzed. It was found that there exist compressive residual strains in the inner wall region of the rat trachea and tensile residual strains in t...