Sentence examples for loss of elastic from inspiring English sources

The most specific function test representative of emphysema is loss of elastic recoil, determined from P– V (pressure volume) curves (increased compliance or decreased elastance).

"A lot of what happens when we age and skin starts wrinkling and sagging is loss of elastic recoil," he said.

In addition, loss of elastic tissue from the walls of the destroyed alveoli causes the lungs to expand within the chest cage.

The resultant congestion and loss of elastic recoil may additionally affect alveolar compliance.

Affected regions of the vessel demonstrate fibrous intimal proliferation with loss of elastic fibres, leading to varying degrees of stenosis.

Recently, we determined that loss of elastic recoil might be attributable to pentosidine level in the airways.

There are, however, marked degenerative changes in the connective tissue, both elastic and collagenous, that cause wrinkling and loss of elasticity.

Excessive exposure to the sun can cause severe photoaging as early as the second decade of life resulting in a loss of physiological elastic fiber functions.

The loss of normal elastic fiber functions is a common age-associated feature of both photoaging and intrinsic aging processes.

The continuous deposition of a variety of proteins, including collagen, coupled with progressive loss of the elastic matrix will result in arterial stiffening [40].

In this case, the arterial wall is infiltrated by endovascular trophoblasts, triggering a suppression of the vasomotor control, thus resulting in a very important dilatation of the lumen and a loss of the elastic properties of the arteries [ 4- 8].