One of the critical components of treatment for patients with cleft lip and palate is alveolar bone grafting (ABG), which aims to restore the bony support for teeth and improve the overall ...

Diverse endocytic processes play a key role in all phases of acute lung injury (ALI), including the initial insult, development of respiratory failure due to alveolar flooding, as a consequence of ...

Alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells maintain lung health by acting as stem cells and producing pulmonary surfactant. AT2 dysfunction underlies many lung diseases, including interstitial lung disease (ILD), in ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

However, these dendrites did not pass the outermost epithelium or into the lumen. On the contrary, alveolar DCs with little motility kept extending and retracting dendrites across epithelial barriers ...

Effects of Alveolar Bone Grafts vs. Orthognathic Surgery on Cleft Palate Speech Nasalance: A Meta-Analysis Rivka Lipkovitz, Age: 18, Proof School, CA, Project Title: The Differential Effects of ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Nanofiltration (NF) polymeric membranes are typically made from fossil fuel-derived ...

Experimental models suggest that intrauterine nicotine exposure results in thickened alveolar walls, increased airway smooth muscle mass and airways hyper-responsiveness, and a mismatch between airway ...