This makes it harder for the lungs to work. Overdistention is overstretching of the alveoli. A healthy connective tissue ...

Bronchitis affects the bronchial tubes that carry air to your lungs. Pneumonia affects the air sacs, called alveoli, where oxygen passes into your blood. Pneumonia causes these air sacs in the ...

Healthy lung tissue contains many air-filled alveoli, in which oxygen is absorbed from the respiratory air into the blood (left). In fibrotic lung tissue, these have been displaced by connective ...

These conditions lead to inflammation of lung tissue and accumulation of fluid in alveoli (small lung sacs), which can result in coughing and chest pain. Pneumonia and other viral and bacterial ...

Initially mistaken for neutrophils, a population of atypical macrophages appears in the lungs after severe viral infection, orchestrates tissue repair ... and that they facilitate the repair of ...

Gas exchange is a process that involves the swapping of gases that occurs at exchange surfaces such as the alveoli found within your lungs. Gas exchange allows oxygen to travel into your cells for ...

A multidisciplinary clinical team led by Professor Bernat Soria from the Institute of Bioengineering at the Miguel Hernández ...

It comes in several forms, one of which is emphysema, which causes progressive damage to the air sacs or alveoli of the lungs ... proportion of functional lung tissue to be destroyed before ...