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SUBMITTER: Chang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3575013 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20130101
Here we report a tracking X-ray microscopy (TrXM) as a novel methodology by using upper right lung apices alveoli in live intact mice. By enabling tracking of individual alveolar movements during respiration, TrXM identifies alveolar dynamics: individual alveoli in the upper lung apices show a small size increment as 4.9 ± 0.4% (mean ± s.e.m.) during respiration while their shapes look almost invariant. TrXM analysis in alveolar dynamics would be significant for better understanding of alveolar- ...[more]