Blood-Air Barrier
"Blood-Air Barrier" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The barrier between capillary blood and alveolar air comprising the alveolar EPITHELIUM and capillary ENDOTHELIUM with their adherent BASEMENT MEMBRANE and EPITHELIAL CELL cytoplasm. PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE occurs across this membrane.
Descriptor ID |
D015824
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MeSH Number(s) |
A04.411.715.025 A07.025
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Concept/Terms |
Blood-Air Barrier- Blood-Air Barrier
- Barrier, Blood-Air
- Barriers, Blood-Air
- Blood Air Barrier
- Blood-Air Barriers
- Alveolocapillary Membrane
- Alveolocapillary Membranes
- Membrane, Alveolocapillary
- Membranes, Alveolocapillary
- Air-Blood Barrier
- Air Blood Barrier
- Air-Blood Barriers
- Barrier, Air-Blood
- Barriers, Air-Blood
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2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood-Air Barrier" by people in Profiles.
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Yoshioka K, Yoshida K, Cui H, Wakayama T, Takuwa N, Okamoto Y, Du W, Qi X, Asanuma K, Sugihara K, Aki S, Miyazawa H, Biswas K, Nagakura C, Ueno M, Iseki S, Schwartz RJ, Okamoto H, Sasaki T, Matsui O, Asano M, Adams RH, Takakura N, Takuwa Y. Endothelial PI3K-C2a, a class II PI3K, has an essential role in angiogenesis and vascular barrier function. Nat Med. 2012 Oct; 18(10):1560-9.
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