In Scandinavia, Arvo Ylppö, the Finnish pediatrician (1887–1992), spread the word about the physiol- ogy and pathology of the newborn, based on his studies in Berlin. The work of Sir Joseph Barcroft in the United Kingdom brought new understanding of the fetus (11); and in the ...
Solitary pulmonary nodules are common, often incidental findings on chest CT scans. The investigation of pulmonary nodules is time-consuming and often leads to protracted follow-up with ongoing radiological surveillance, however, clinical calculators that assess the risk of the nodule being malignant exi...
Our experimental approach uses a cell culture model with all the advantages and drawbacks of an in vitro system: This comprises a purified cell population of lung endothelial origin, which allows to investigate direct cell-specific responses but is deprived of the in situ micro-environment and migh...