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Michael A Matthay1, Sunita Bhattacharya, Donald Gaver, Lorraine B Ware, Lina H K Lim, Olga Syrkina, Fabien Eyal, Rolf Hubmayr.
Abstract
A lung-protective ventilator strategy significantly reduces mortality in patients with acute lung injury. Substantial progress has been made in understanding how mechanical stress can injure the lung, both in terms of alterations in barrier properties of the pulmonary endothelium and epithelium as well as in stimulating proinflammatory responses of macrophages and neutrophils.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12225942 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00154.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol ISSN: 1040-0605 Impact factor: 5.464