COMLEX Level 2 ENARM NEET Create your free account Advertisement The Lecturio Medical Concept Library Lungs: Anatomy Lungs are the main organs of the respiratory system. Lungs are paired viscera located in the thoracic cavity and are composed of spongy tissue. The primary function of the lungs is...
Pulmonarypleuraconsists of two layers of the invaginated sac, with theparietal pleuraattaching to the thoracic cavity, and thevisceral pleuralining the lungs. Visceral pleura is composed of mesothelial cells and a scant amount of underlying connective tissue that attaches to the parenchyma of the lu...
When cancers progress to metastasis, interactions between disseminated cancer cells and nontransformed cells of the microenvironment play an important role1. Crosstalk between disseminated cancer cells and stromal cells of secondary organs can result in the generation of metastatic niches that promote malign...
as CD69 þ cells were found to recirculate31 and CD69 À cells were found to be resident.54 In support of this, we demonstrated that lung CD4 þ CD69 À T cells are composed of effector and memory cells, whereas circulating CD4 þ T cells mainly consist of naive and central me...
As the hemoglobin releases oxygen to the cells of the body, it binds with carbon dioxide molecules. The carbon dioxide is then carried back to the lungs to be exhaled. The carbon dioxide transported in the blood is composed of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms....
The two types of alveolar cells are type 1 pneumocyte and type 2 pneumocyte (septal cells). Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is TRUE. Septal cells, also called type II alveolar cells secrete pulmonary surfactant which helps inflate alveolar ...
Both systems are composed of peptidase enzymes [angiotensin-I converting enzyme type-1 and -2 (ACE and ACE2, respectively) and tissue kallikrein (KLK-1)]; and receptors [angiotensin receptors type-1 and type-2 (AT1R and AT2R, respectively); and bradykinin receptors type-1 and type-2 (B1...
of the thresholds of the granuloma cellular structure is shown by the grey level histogram. (d) The colour code for the intensity differences correspond with the lesion composition: the healthy parenchyma is in blue, the rim composed by foamy macrophages in green and the neutrophil foci in red...
pulmonary vessel. The majority of these cells express chromogen for CD4 mRNA.E,FIn a region of similar severity of pneumonic lesions in a Sham vaccinated mouse, there is a robust perivascular cuff composed of 7–20 cell layers of lymphocytes. With RNAscope in situ hybridization there is a dis...
Ruppert et al., “Recombinant production of a hybrid plasminogen activator composed of surfactant protein B and low-molecular-weight urokinase,” Thromb Haemost, 100: 1185-92, 2008. Shaver et al., “Structure-activity relationships of dinucleotides: Potent and selective agonists of P2Y receptors,...