Lesions other than interstitial lung disease ... basophilic structures that are usually found in alveolar spaces filled with macrophages (fig. 2-10). They are small, measuring 15 to 40 μm ...

In 2019, a series of reported lung injury cases among teenagers ... the effects observed in mice also occur in humans.

In a healthy lung, excess surfactant is cleared and digested by immune cells called alveolar macrophages. Alveolar macrophages need to be stimulated by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating ...