The forced oscillation technique in clinical practice: methodology, recommendations and future developments

E Oostveen, D MacLeod, H Lorino… - European …, 2003 - publications.ersnet.org
The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a noninvasive method with which to measure
respiratory mechanics. FOT employs small-amplitude pressure oscillations superimposed …

An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: pulmonary function testing in preschool children

N Beydon, SD Davis, E Lombardi, JL Allen… - American journal of …, 2007 - atsjournals.org
An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Pulmonary
Function Testing in Preschool Children | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care …

The role of allergy in the development of asthma

PG Holt, C Macaubas, PA Stumbles, PD Sly - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Recent studies have shown that initial sensitization to airborne environmental allergens
occurs typically in early childhood, but subsequent progression to persistent atopic asthma …

An improved murine model of asthma: selective airway inflammation, epithelial lesions and increased methacholine responsiveness following chronic exposure to …

J Temelkovski, SP Hogan, DP Shepherd, PS Foster… - Thorax, 1998 - thorax.bmj.com
BACKGROUND Existing murine models of asthma lack many of the inflammatory and
epithelial changes that are typical of the human disease. Moreover, these models are …

Oscillation mechanics of the respiratory system

JHT Bates, CG Irvin, R Farré… - Comprehensive …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The mechanical impedance of the respiratory system defines the pressure profile required to
drive a unit of oscillatory flow into the lungs. Impedance is a function of oscillation frequency …

[图书][B] The human respiratory system: an analysis of the interplay between anatomy, structure, breathing and fractal dynamics

CM Ionescu - 2013 - books.google.com
The Human Respiratory System combines emerging ideas from biology and mathematics to
show the reader how to produce models for the development of biomedical engineering …

Specific airway resistance, interrupter resistance, and respiratory impedance in healthy children aged 2–7 years

B Klug, H Bisgaard - Pediatric pulmonology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
We report data on respiratory function in healthy children aged 2–7 years in whom we
measured respiratory resistance by the interrupter technique (Rint); total respiratory …

Small airway inflammation in asthma

MK Tulic, P Christodoulopoulos, Q Hamid - Respiratory research, 2001 - Springer
Asthma was originally described as an inflammatory disease that predominantly involves the
central airways. Pathological and physiological evidence reported during the past few years …

Pathogenesis of small airways in asthma

Q Hamid - Respiration, 2012 - karger.com
Asthma is a lung disease characterized by inflammation and remodeling of the airways. It is
now widely accepted that airway inflammation and remodeling occur not only in the central …

Respiratory input impedance measurement: forced oscillation methods

D MacLeod, M Birch - Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 2001 - Springer
The paper reviews how forced oscillation techniques (FOT) for measuring respiratory input
impedance Z rs, in have recently been used in clinical applications. Z rs, in is clinically …