Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2082230 Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models 2010 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Preparations consisting of an isolated perfused lung from small laboratory animals is useful tool to study local regulatory mechanisms in health and disease. Isolated lung can be perfused with blood or with salt solution including albumin for several hours without functional impairment. The basic advantage of this preparation is the good opportunity to control individual hemodynamic and ventilation parameters in well defined experimental conditions.

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