A new ventilator-on-a-chip model to study lung damage

ScienceDaily
Sep 19, 2024, 11:52 am79 pts
Scientists are now able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model, researchers found that shear stress from the collapse and reopening of the air sacs is the most injurious type of damage.

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