Morphometry: stereological theory and practical methods

ER Weibel - Models of lung disease, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
… question that is commonly asked is about the number of alveoli making up the lung. Not …
in attempts to find a morphometric basis for lung function. To find the morphometric variables of …

[HTML][HTML] Morphology and morphometry of pulmonary veins and the left atrium in multi-slice computed tomography

M Polaczek, P Szaro, I Baranska, B Burakowska… - Surgical and Radiologic …, 2019 - Springer
Pulmonary veins are involved in pathogenesis and treatment of … structures at risk during
thoracic surgeries. There is lack of data regarding pulmonary vein morphology and morphometry

Association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and change in quantitatively assessed emphysema and lung function

M Wang, CP Aaron, J Madrigano, EA Hoffman… - Jama, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
association between other air pollutants and lung function decline or between O 3 and
FEV 1 /FVC ratio (eTable 10 in the Supplement). No indication of combined association was …

Localization of macrophages in the human lung via design-based stereology

PS Hume, SL Gibbings, CV Jakubzick… - … journal of respiratory …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
… The distribution of AMs between the conducting airway lumens and the gas-exchanging
airspaces has not been previously described. Thus, although our morphometry protocol was …

Quantitative CT analysis of diffuse lung disease

A Chen, RA Karwoski, DS Gierada, BJ Bartholmai… - Radiographics, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
… in lower lung density, such as emphysema. However, threshold-based measures that do
not assess morphology or local spatial relationships cannot differentiate between different …

Noninvasive imaging biomarker identifies small airway damage in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

DM Vasilescu, FJ Martinez, N Marchetti… - … journal of respiratory …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
… As we only analyzed TB morphometry, therefore, we cannot conclude that PRM SAD identifies
small airways disease in all small conducting airways. Last, although our prior clinical and …

Building and regenerating the lung cell by cell

JA Whitsett, TV Kalin, Y Xu… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
… While recognized by their distinct morphology, developmental origins and functions of
NE cells and NEBs have remained relatively mysterious. NE cells in the mature lung are …

Personalised mechanical ventilation tailored to lung morphology versus low positive end-expiratory pressure for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome in …

JM Constantin, M Jabaudon, JY Lefrant… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2019 - thelancet.com
… on clinical outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains
… that was personalised to individual patients' lung morphology would improve the survival of …

Recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of lung alveolarization and bronchopulmonary dysplasia

E Lignelli, F Palumbo, D Myti… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
… and morphology, where lungs from … morphometry, leading the authors to propose a role
for mechanical forces and mechanosignaling in epithelial differentiation in the developing lung (…

Lung computational models and the role of the small airways in asthma

BH Foy, M Soares, R Bordas, M Richardson… - … journal of respiratory …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
… of the underlying statistical relationship between R5 − R20, … in lung structure with clinical
pulmonary measurements and … of the underlying small airway morphology. Reductions in R5 − …