A growth that causes death is not benign in the strictest meaning of the word, and an inflammatory hyperplasia shaped like a tumor is not, histologically, a neoplasm, but the clinician's primary concern in tumor-like nonmalignant obstructions of the bronchi is the secondary atelectasis, ...
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...