Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:A confocal microscopic study of solitary pulmonary neuroendocrine cells in human airway epithelium. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Research Open Access A confocal microscopic study of solitary pulmonary neuroendocrine cells in human airway epithelium Markus Weichselbaum1 2 Malcolm P Sparrow1 2 3 Elisha J Hamilton1 2 4 Philip J Thompson1 2 and Darryl A Knight 1 2 5 Address 1Asthma and Allergy Research Institute Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Nedlands 6009 Western Australia 2Centre for Asthma Allergy and Respiratory Research University of Western Australia 6009 3Department of Physiology University of Western Australia Nedlands 6009 Western Australia 4Heart Research Institute Royal North Shore Hospital The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia and 5James Hogg iCAPTURE center for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Research St. Pauls Hospital University of British Columbia Vancouver BC V6Z 1Y6 Canada Email Markus Weichselbaum - weichsel@ Malcolm P Sparrow - msparrow@ Elisha J Hamilton - ejhamilton@ Philip J Thompson - pjthomps@ Darryl A Knight - dknight@ Corresponding author Published 10 October 2005 Received 09 May 2005 Respiratory Research 2005 6 115 doi 1465-9921-6-115 Accepted 10 October 2005 This article is available from http content 6 1 1 15 2005 Weichselbaum et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Pulmonary neuroendocrine cells PNEC are specialized epithelial cells that are thought to play important roles in lung development and airway function. PNEC occur either singly or in clusters called neuroepithelial bodies. Our aim was to characterize the three dimensional morphology of PNEC their distribution and their relationship to the epithelial nerves in whole mounts of adult .
