This review analyses the mechanisms by which lung fluid balance is strictly controlled in the
air-blood barrier (ABB). Relatively large trans-endothelial and trans-epithelial Starling …

In this review, materials based on polymers and hybrids possessing both organic and
inorganic contents for repairing or facilitating cell growth in tissue engineering are …

Lung-on-a-chip (LoC) models hold the potential to rapidly change the landscape for
pulmonary drug screening and therapy, giving patients more advanced and less invasive …

Lung fibrosis, one of the major post‐COVID complications, is a progressive and ultimately
fatal disease without a cure. Here, an organ‐and disease‐specific in vitro mini‐lung fibrosis …

Mechanical ventilation generates injurious forces that exacerbate lung injury. These forces
disrupt lung barrier integrity, trigger proinflammatory mediator release, and differentially …

Evolution has endowed the lung with exceptional design providing a large surface area for
gas exchange area (ca. 100 m2) in a relatively small tissue volume (ca. 6 L). This is possible …

Many strategies have been adopted to construct in vitro myocardium models, which are of
great value to both drug cardiotoxicity evaluation and cardiovascular drug development. In …

Chronic respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide, but only
symptomatic therapies are available for terminal illness. This in part reflects a lack of …

Sulfur mustard (SM) is a highly toxic chemical warfare agent that causes acute lung injury
(ALI) and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). There are no effective therapeutic …

Decellularization efforts must balance the preservation of the extracellular matrix (ECM)
components while eliminating the nucleic acid and cellular components. Following effective …