Pulmonary emphysema is believed to result from an imbalance between proteolytic enzymes
and their inhibitors. Multiple studies have examined the presence of various proteases …

Pulmonary emphysema is associated with alterations in matrix proteins and protease activity.
These alterations may be linked to programmed cell death by apoptosis, potentially …

… This omission, plus the restriction that either all or none of the plume is captured by the
cavity, was shown by Schulman and Scire5 to lead to unrealistically large predicted …

Background We observed an unexpectedly High incidence of postoperative gastroparesis
among lung and heart-lung transplant recipients. Purpose To identify the incidence of GI …

Four trials were conducted with boar spermatozoa to determine the effects of dilution rate,
seminal plasma content and extender composition on susceptibility to cold shock and the …

Sixty-eight gilts were inseminated intracervically with equal numbers of fresh or frozen boar
sperm. In Exp. 1, sperm were recovered from various segments of the reproductive tract at 2, …

In four experiments the surfactant, Orvus ES Paste (OEP) was incorporated in semen extender
to determine its effects on acrosome morphology, motility and fertilizing capacity of frozen-…

The objective of this study was to prospectively assess pulmonary venous anastomosis by
transesophageal echocardiography after lung transplantation. Thrombus formation at the …

Background. Osteoporosis is very common in patients with end-stage pulmonary disease.
However, there are few prospective data on fracture incidence after lung transplantation. …

… Schulman, Gerard Simmoneau, Victor F. Tapson, EP Trulock, Carol Vreim, Martin
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