"Blood-Air Barrier" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The barrier between capillary blood and alveolar air comprising the alveolar EPITHELIUM and capillary ENDOTHELIUM with their adherent BASEMENT MEMBRANE and EPITHELIAL CELL cytoplasm. PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE occurs across this membrane.
| Descriptor ID |
D015824
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A04.411.715.025 A07.025
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| Concept/Terms |
Blood-Air Barrier- Blood-Air Barrier
- Barrier, Blood-Air
- Barriers, Blood-Air
- Blood Air Barrier
- Blood-Air Barriers
- Alveolocapillary Membrane
- Alveolocapillary Membranes
- Membrane, Alveolocapillary
- Membranes, Alveolocapillary
- Air-Blood Barrier
- Air Blood Barrier
- Air-Blood Barriers
- Barrier, Air-Blood
- Barriers, Air-Blood
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Blood-Air Barrier" by people in Profiles.
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The blood-gas barrier in COVID-19: an overview of the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the alveolar epithelial and endothelial cells of the lung. Tissue Barriers. 2021 10 02; 9(4):1937013.
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RAC1 nitration at Y32 IS involved in the endothelial barrier disruption associated with lipopolysaccharide-mediated acute lung injury. Redox Biol. 2021 01; 38:101794.
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Endothelial activation and dysfunction in metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and coronavirus disease 2019. J Int Med Res. 2020 Jul; 48(7):300060520939746.
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Acute Respiratory Barrier Disruption by Ozone Exposure in Mice. Front Immunol. 2019; 10:2169.
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Instillation of hyaluronan reverses acid instillation injury to the mammalian blood gas barrier. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2018 05 01; 314(5):L808-L821.
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RAGE inhibition reduces acute lung injury in mice. Sci Rep. 2017 08 03; 7(1):7208.
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Is there a vanishing pulmonary capillary syndrome? Lancet Respir Med. 2017 09; 5(9):676-678.
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Effect of PPARgamma inhibition on pulmonary endothelial cell gene expression: gene profiling in pulmonary hypertension. Physiol Genomics. 2009 Dec 30; 40(1):48-60.
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Evidence against aquaporin-1-dependent CO2 permeability in lung and kidney. J Physiol. 2002 Jul 01; 542(Pt 1):63-9.