Sentences with phrase «lung airways»

The investigators focused on alveoli, the small air sacs at the ends of lung airways.

Asthma is a chronic disease in which lung airways become swollen and narrow, making it difficult for air to move in and out of lungs.

The company is currently working with a major pharmaceutical firm to print lung airways for use in testing medications to combat airway fibrosis, a condition that kills 100,000 Americans a year.

By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

By enhancing the metabolism rates, chili powder brings relief to nasal congestion and opens lung airways; thus, reducing the symptoms of asthma and wheezing.

Researchers previously made a chip model of diseased heart cells in order to study new treatments, and in a similar vein, last year a team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard modeled lung airways exhibiting COPD and asthma.

Nigellone semohiprepinon, an active healing ingredient in black cumin seed, is known for its immune - boosting properties and is also a bronchiodilator (it relaxes and expands lung airways).

It then travels down the respiratory tract and binds to epithelial cells lining the lung airways via specific molecules on the cell surface.

When an allergic substance enters the lungs the airways tighten and hence the lining of the airways swell and blocks the mucus, making it harder to breathe.

«Although liquid instillation has great therapeutic potential, its applications have been unexplored, largely because of limited understanding of the liquid transport in the lung airways.

Both the tissue architecture and the air flow change dramatically along the 24 generations of the lung airway, from the large bronchus down to the alveoli.

Their approach, in which micro-liters of liquid containing a drug are instilled into the lung, distributed as a thin film in the predetermined region of the lung airway, and absorbed locally, may provide much more effective treatment of lung disease.

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

A respiratory condition in which the lung airways are chronically inflamed, asthma can be triggered by substances other than pet dander, such as dust mites, exhaust, smoke, and cold air, or even allergens from rodents and cockroaches.

Magnesium helps your lung airways relax so you can breathe easier.

Background Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition of the lung airways.