Sepsis, a severe and often fatal complication of infection, is a leading cause of both ALI and acute respiratory distress ...

Researchers at National Jewish Health and colleagues have completed the first study comparing lung macrophages in multiple ...

Veins in the lungs, or pulmonary veins, play a critical role not only in lung functioning but also in maintaining sufficient ...

Veins in the lungs, or pulmonary veins, play a critical role not only in lung functioning but also in maintaining sufficient oxygen in tissue throughout the body. When a person sustains pulmonary ...

They also show that VECs differentiate into capillary cells, and that this remodeling is a response to lung injury ... to proceed with generating a mouse model based on this gene.