Birds possess an incredibly efficient uni-directional respiratory system, necessary for energy-expensive activities like sustained flights during migration, acrobatic hovering and hawking, and ...

Air circulating through the avian respiratory system flows through the trachea (windpipe) that runs from the throat to the lungs. This structure is reinforced with rings of cartilage that prevent it ...

What Are Smoker's Lungs? You’ve heard it a million times: Smoking is bad for you. You may not realize, though, how much tobacco changes your lungs and their ability to bring oxygen into your body.

The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anatomy is designed to supply function to most muscles of ... It plays an important role in your ability to speak, swallow, and protect the airway from aspiration ...

This may be due to temporary collapse of some airways ... intersubject variability in achievable lung deposition that may be related to differences in anatomy and breath size.

This includes your airways, lungs, certain blood vessels, and the muscles that power your lungs. Cigarette smoking, for example, is responsible for nearly 90% of all lung cancer deaths and 80% of ...

The RC Week 24 was organized by the unit of Respiratory Therapy Yenepoya School of Allied Health Sciences (YSAHS), and took ...

Engineers Design Lookalike Drug Carrier to Evade Lung's Lines of Defense Aug. 22, 2024 — Managing hard-to-treat respiratory illnesses like asthma and pulmonary fibrosis just got easier if a new ...

The platform replicates key aspects of lung physiology, including a functional airway interface, cyclic breathing motion, and medium circulation. Using the Calu-3 cell line to model airway epithelium, ...

The far-reaching consequences of pollution are having a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of animals across various ...