… Furthermore, some subjects have a decrease in airway caliber with lung inflation… airway
caliber increases are lower in subjects with emphysema-predominant (EP) compared with airway…

… changes of emphysema, such as decreased baseline airway calibre and destruction of the
lung parenchyma. … None of the subjects had taken oral or inhaled steroids. The pulmonary …

… We conclude that the volume dependence of Rcw can bias the presumed net change in
airway caliber during tidal breathing and a DI but would not distort assessment of maximum …

… Assuming that Grs mainly reflects airway caliber and Xrs the … We suggest that changes of
airway distensibility and volume … the reduced airway distensibility in our COPD subjects was …

… 2–4 mm in diameter showed the greatest postmethacholine changes in both healthy
subjects and subjects with asthma (24). Differences in both the MCh challenge and the HRCT …

… Although lung volumes significantly differed on two occasions (p = 0.029), changes in
lung volume did not significantly correlate with those of airway calibre among the subjects. …

… airway caliber during tidal breathing, during a DI, and after a DI in real time. Lung resistance
at ∼8 Hz reflects almost exclusively airway … changes in Raw in terms of airway caliber, we …

… of nonsmoking control subjects without emphysema (n = 10) … and changes in the caliber of
the small conducting airways in … we investigated the change in small airway wall thickness in …

… changes on the site of airway resistance on both theoretical and experimental (data from
COPD … reduction in airway caliber in COPD, we compared the calculated values of the terminal …

… with healthy control subjects, and we identified, for the first time, that emphysema and … airway
distensibility, a ratio of the airway calibre change corresponding to the lung volume change …