Article
Equibiaxial deformation-induced injury of alveolar epithelial cells in vitro.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Dec 1998
Tschumperlin D J, Margulies S S
Abstract excerpt
Deformation of the alveolar epithelial basement membrane with lung inflation has been implicated in blood-gas barrier breakdown during the development of ventilator-induced lung injury. To determine the vulnerability of alveolar epithelial cells to deformation-induced injury, we developed a cell-...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytological Techniques
- Epithelial Cells
- Equipment Design
- Male
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Alveoli
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Stress, Mechanical
