Inflammation caused by lupus may affect the lungs in many ways, and can involve the membrane lining of the lungs, the lungs themselves, the blood vessels within the lungs, and the diaphragm. The most ...

Air dryness is as critical to air quality as air dirtiness, explained David Edwards, adjunct professor of medicine at the ...

Taken together, Vaughan and Wong say, these studies led them and their colleagues to hypothesize that endothelial cells ...

The cells in the body need oxygen to release energy from food efficiently by carrying out aerobic respiration. A waste product of aerobic respiration is carbon dioxide. The layer of moisture in ...

They used two different types of lung cells: BEAS-2B cells, which represent normal lung-lining cells, and A549 cells, which come from lung cancer tissue and are commonly used in respiratory studies.