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Sepsis-induced lung injury in rats increases alveolar epithelial vulnerability to stretch.
Critical care medicine - 1 Jun 2006
Levine Glenn K, Deutschman Clifford S, Helfaer Mark A, Margulies Susan S
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OBJECTIVE: Previous in vitro models have shown that cellular deformation causes dose-dependent injury and death in healthy rat alveolar epithelial cells (AECs). We compared the viability of AECs from septic rats with those from nonseptic rats after 1 hr of cyclic equibiaxial stretch. We hypothesized that sepsis would increase stretch-induced cell death. DESIGN: Laboratory investigation. SETTING: University...
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