All diseases exist on a continuum, and the damage often begins early—sometimes as soon as a child is weaned off breast milk ...

Sighs can indicate emotional states or attempts to communicate something important, but unfortunately they can easily go ...

Alveolar hypoxia causes pulmonary vasoconstriction by a variety of actions on endothelium and smooth muscle. This increased pulmonary vascular resistance can be further compounded by reactive ...

It began as an innocently planned multi-day hiking trip. Morgan Chesky, a broadcaster from Dallas, was fit and wanted a ...

It is well established that exposure to rodents to chronic alveolar hypoxia (usually 3 weeks) primarily causes constriction of resistant vessels in the pulmonary vascular bed. When hypoxia is ...

Pneumonia can be unpredictable and complications may occur at any time. In most cases, pneumonia peaks during the hepatization stages, in which the risk of hypoxia (low oxygen) and severe ...

This valuable study presents a novel approach to enhance the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) by genetically modifying their glycogen synthesis pathway, resulting in increased ...

Typically, these changes include damage or enlargement to the alveoli, which is characteristic of emphysema. CT scans play an important role in the diagnosis and evaluation of emphysema.

The lungs contain more than 300 million tiny, stretchy air sacs known as alveoli. Breathing in and out causes these air sacs to expand and deflate. Breathing out is usually an involuntary response ...

Hillestad V, Espe EK, Cero F, Larsen KO, Sjaastad I, Nygård S, Skjønsberg OH, Christensen G. IL-18 neutralization during alveolar hypoxia improves left ventricular diastolic function in mice. Acta ...