Sentence examples for mature lung from inspiring English sources

A healthy, mature lung is pliable and soft, like a leather glove; immature lungs are stiff and unable to inflate and deflate on their own.

Lambs 116--124 days gestation infused in utero for 75 h with cortisol showed, when compared to twin controls, more mature lung histology and pressure-volume relationships.

Sox2 is also expressed in developing respiratory epithelium and is restricted to conducting airways of the mature lung [25].

Together, these data provide insight into the mechanisms by which Sox17 stimulates respiratory epithelial progenitor cell behavior and lineage respecification in the mature lung.

While cell turnover and proliferation is relatively low in the mature lung, the respiratory epithelium is capable of extensive proliferation following injury [3], [4], [5], [6].

Together, these data show that a subset of mature respiratory epithelial cells retains remarkable phenotypic plasticity and that Sox17, a gene required for early endoderm formation, activates the cell cycle and reinitiates multipotent progenitor cell behavior in mature lung cells.

Whether invasive testing for fetal lung maturity is useful, will depend on the effectiveness of expectant management as compared to immediate delivery in fetuses of which lung maturity tests have indicated mature lungs.

RSV vaccine strategies tailored for infants should recruit and mature lung-associated macrophages and dendritic cells, in order to deliver antigen to elicit long-lasting, T-cell dependent immunity.

They found that one variant is associated with a gene that's known to regulate lung branching in utero and may also act to increase inflammation in more mature lungs.

In a study published last December of babies demonstrated to have mature lungs before birth, those delivered at 36 to 38 weeks had two and a half times the number of complications compared with those delivered at 39 to 40 weeks.

α-SMA expression decreased in adult mature lungs when compared to day 21 of gestation and early postnatal life [32].