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- noun Plural form of
pneumocyte .
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Examples
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AQP5, the aquaporin from secretory glands, was cloned by Surabhi Raina and was shown by Landon and Søren to have unique distribution in glands and alveolar pneumocytes.
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However, we previously detected abundant viral nucleoprotein of A/Nagano/RC1-L/2009 (H1N1) in pneumocytes expressing α2-3 sialylated glycans in autopsy lung tissue sections
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+ HUVECs. (f) High-power view (left, ×40, scale bar, 20 μm; right, ×80, scale bar, 10 μm) showing pneumocytes (white arrowheads) forming a single layer of cytoplasm over endothelial cell-lined capillaries (white arrows) in the alveolar septum.
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"Our natural matrix generated the same pattern, with tracheal cells only in the trachea, alveoli-like cells in the alveoli, pneumocytes only in the distal lung, and definite transition zones between the bronchi and the alveoli."
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Baybutt RC, Hu L, Molteni A. Vitamin A deficiency injures lung and liver parenchyma and impairs function of rat type II pneumocytes.
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Baybutt RC, Hu L, Molteni A. Vitamin A deficiency injures lung and liver parenchyma and impairs function of rat type II pneumocytes.
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Baybutt RC, Hu L, Molteni A. Vitamin A deficiency injures lung and liver parenchyma and impairs function of rat type II pneumocytes.
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Epithelial cell apoptosis makes a significant contribution to the disease but type II pneumocytes appear to function as local stem cells, and functional recovery depends on their proliferation to restore the normal alveolar architecture
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Baybutt RC, Hu L, Molteni A. Vitamin A deficiency injures lung and liver parenchyma and impairs function of rat type II pneumocytes.
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Baybutt RC, Hu L, Molteni A. Vitamin A deficiency injures lung and liver parenchyma and impairs function of rat type II pneumocytes.
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