Science news articles about 'windpipe'

... Center at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The authors created an artificial windpipe in the lab to replicate the environment of a smoker’s lung. They then studied the effects of ...

... during sleep and sag, narrowing the airway. The tongue slides to the back of the mouth, blocking the windpipe and cutting off oxygen to the lungs. The sleeper wakes up, gasping for air, and falls ...

An autopsy on the cub, born at an Amsterdam zoo, showed the animal's windpipe filled with milk, indicating it had choked to death, officials report.

The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilising the patient's own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The bioengineered trachea ...

When you breathe in air, the air travels from your nose, down your trachea (windpipe), and into your lungs.

... even fewer (7 percent) knew that dying patients would have a tube placed through the mouth and into the windpipe (intubation) and then be placed on a breathing machine. More than half of patients (59 ...

... demonstrated the basic possibilities for use of the tissue models – liver, skin, intestine and windpipe. At the moment, the test system is being examined. Within two years it could provide a safer ...

... tiny beating rods that mimic cilia, the hairlike appendages that line organs such as the human windpipe, where they sweep out dirt and mucus from the lungs. The researchers created a prototype that ...

... to insert a breathing tube into someone needing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). LMAs are used to keep a patient's windpipe open and secure during life-saving CPR or mouth-to-mouth, and are far ...

... used a bronchoscope to inject the vector with an added IL-10 gene through the windpipe into the human lungs. The study found that lungs maintained on the Toronto Lung Perfusion System alone, the ...