Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Subject "obstructive pulmonary-disease"

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Airway basal stem cells: a perspective on their roles in epithelial homeostasis and remodeling

Rock, Jason; Hogan, Brigid (COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2010)

The small airways of the human lung undergo pathological changes in pulmonary disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, bronchiolitis obliterans and cystic fibrosis. These clinical problems ...
The Effects of Sleep Hypoxia on Coagulant Factors and Hepatic Inflammation in Emphysematous Rats

Feng, Jing; Chiang, Ambrose (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Objectives: To develop a sleep hypoxia (SH) in emphysema (SHE) rat model and to explore whether SHE results in more severe hepatic inflammation than emphysema alone and whether the inflammation changes levels of ...