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Efficient estimation of the total number of acini in adult rat lung

Pulmonary airways are subdivided into conducting and gas‐exchanging airways. An acinus is defined as the small tree of gas‐exchanging airways, which is fed by the most distal purely conducting airway. Until now a dissector of five consecutive sections or airway casts were used to count acini. We dev...

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Autores principales: Barré, Sébastien F., Haberthür, David, Stampanoni, Marco, Schittny, Johannes C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24997068
http://dx.doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12063