supported by the National Institutes of Health grant HL 105947 and HL 155272 to Y.L.
Alveoli serve as the functional units of the lungs,responsible for the critical task of blood-gas exchange.Com-prising type I(AT1)and type II(AT2)cells,the alveolar epithelium is continuously subject to external aggre...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFA0702300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52006094 and 52076064);the Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province (Grant No. tsqn201812105)。
Bionics provides a positive and beneficial impact on the development of various materials and systems, which has been widely used in energy storage, heat transfer enhancement, and solar thermochemical reactions. In th...
Dear Editor,The global pandemic COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus has infected over 6.5 million individuals and claimed over 350,000 lives worldwide within six months.The respiratory epithelial cells covering the ai...
Irreversible destruction of bronchi and alveoli can lead to multiple incurable lung diseases. Identifying lung stem/progenitor cells with regenerative capacity and utilizing them to reconstruct functional tissue is on...
We report a case of nontraumatic fat embolism syndrome with large amounts of macrophages with phagocytized fat droplets in the alveoli.A 46‑year‑old male presented with a glass‑cut injury in his little finger.The woun...
Patients developing hemoptysis or pulmonary infiltrates together with glomerulonephritis, particu- larly the rapidly progressive cases, are considered to be pulmonary renal syndrome (PRS). The occur- rence of PRS, a...
This paper was supported by Chongqing Scien-tific Committee Project(No.2001-6630);Three Gorges Reservoir Area Environmental Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education Fund(No.03121).
There are 1 to 4 rows and five types of cortical alveoli in the cortex of the pallas(Hemibarbus labeo)egg.From the outer to the inner of the cortex,the diameter of the cortical alveoli decreases gradually.We found a n...