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Structure and Function of the Lung

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Respiratory System

Part of the book series: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals ((LABORATORY))

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This paper will assume that the outlines of lung structure are known by the reader and will emphasize some of the newer information that has accumulated in the last few years about the biology of various types of cells which are found in the lung and airways. It will be convenient to discuss the airways, where bulk flow of air occurs, separately from the acini, where gas exchange with the circulation takes place.

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  1. Charles Kuhn III
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  1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, 01772, Southborough, MA, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc. (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) & Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology, Emeritus) &  (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, 3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

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Kuhn, C. (1985). Structure and Function of the Lung. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Respiratory System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96846-4_14

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