Airway Resistance

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Computational Study of Nasal Spray Deposition Pattern in Four Ethnic Groups. 
  • Aerosol delivery in intubated, mechanically ventilated patients. 
  • Aerosolized lidocaine reduces dose of topical anesthetic for bronchoscopy. 
  • Airway epithelial cell expression of interleukin-6 in transgenic mice. Uncoupling of airway inflammation and bronchial hyperreactivity. 
  • Airway hyperreactivity produced by short-term exposure to hyperoxia in neonatal guinea pigs. 
  • Allergic inflammation induces a persistent mechanistic switch in thromboxane-mediated airway constriction in the mouse. 
  • Ambroxol inhibits airway hyperresponsiveness induced by ozone in dogs. 
  • Bronchodilating effects of the anesthetic ketamine in an in vitro guinea pig preparation. 
  • Clinical Management Strategies for Airway Pressure Release Ventilation: A Survey of Clinical Practice. 
  • Computed nasal resistance compared with patient-reported symptoms in surgically treated nasal airway passages: a preliminary report. 
  • Conventional mechanical ventilation in pediatrics. 
  • Distal lung dysfunction at night in nocturnal asthma. 
  • Effect of macro- and micropulmonary emboli on airway resistance and lung compliance. 
  • Effect of maturation on topographic distribution of bronchoconstrictor responses in large diameter airways of young swine. 
  • Effects of O2 and CO2 on airway smooth muscle following pulmonary vascular occlusion. 
  • Effects of corticosteroid treatment on airway inflammation, mechanics, and hyperpolarized ³He magnetic resonance imaging in an allergic mouse model. 
  • Effects of respiratory muscle training (RMT) in children with infantile-onset Pompe disease and respiratory muscle weakness. 
  • Effects of temperature on cholinergic contractility of rabbit airway muscle. 
  • GPCRs and arrestins in airways: implications for asthma. 
  • Gas trapping with high-frequency ventilation: jet versus oscillatory ventilation. 
  • General considerations for lung function testing. 
  • Heliox administration during high-frequency jet ventilation augments carbon dioxide clearance. 
  • Hemodynamic and ventilatory effects of high-frequency jet and conventional ventilation in piglets with lung lavage. 
  • Hyoid bone advancement for improving airway patency: cadaver study of a magnet-based system. 
  • In reference to Regional peak mucosal cooling predicts the perception of nasal patency. 
  • Intratracheal pressure: a more accurate reflection of pulmonary airway pressure in pediatric patients with respiratory failure. 
  • Investigating the effects of laryngotracheal stenosis on upper airway aerodynamics. 
  • Jet ventilation in support of fiberoptic bronchoscopy. 
  • Large and small airway responses to bronchoconstrictors in the guinea pig and ferret. 
  • Measurement of laryngeal resistance in the evaluation of botulinum toxin injection for treatment of focal laryngeal dystonia. 
  • Mechanism of substance P-induced bronchoconstriction in maturing rabbit. 
  • Mechanisms of airway hypercontractility in basenji-greyhound dogs. 
  • NO waiting to exhale in asthma. 
  • Ontogeny of dry gas hyperpnea-induced bronchoconstriction in guinea pigs. 
  • Ontogeny of respiratory control and pulmonary mechanics in newborn rabbits. 
  • Optimal positive end-expiratory pressure: The search for the Holy Grail continues. 
  • PEEP in the morning, PEEP at night. 
  • Patient and ventilator work of breathing and ventilatory muscle loads at different levels of pressure support ventilation. 
  • Perception of better nasal patency correlates with increased mucosal cooling after surgery for nasal obstruction. 
  • Point: should positive end-expiratory pressure in patients with ARDS be set on oxygenation? Yes. 
  • Predictors of increased PaCO2 during immersed prone exercise at 4.7 ATA. 
  • Preliminary data on the effect of pharyngeal flaps on the upper airway in children with velopharyngeal inadequacy. 
  • Prolonged oxygen exposures in immersed exercising divers at 25 fsw (1.76 ATA). 
  • Pulmonary function in mechanically-ventilated patients during 24-hour use of a hygroscopic condensor humidifier. 
  • Pulmonary gas exchange in diving. 
  • Pulmonary impedance in dogs measured by forced random noise with a retrograde catheter. 
  • Respiratory responses to sudden pressure venting during stop consonant production. 
  • Setting positive end-expiratory pressure during jet ventilation to replicate the mean airway pressure of oscillatory ventilation. 
  • Strain-dependent genomic factors affect allergen-induced airway hyperresponsiveness in mice. 
  • T3 preserves respiratory function in sepsis. 
  • The critical role of hematopoietic cells in lipopolysaccharide-induced airway inflammation. 
  • The distal airways: are they important in asthma? 
  • The effect of transpulmonary pressure on airway smooth-muscle contraction. 
  • Thromboxane A2 induces airway constriction through an M3 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor-dependent mechanism. 
  • Time dependence of airways and lung parenchymal recoil hysteresis. 
  • Tracheal compression delays alveolar collapse during deep diving in marine mammals. 
  • Unmet needs for the assessment of small airways dysfunction in asthma: introduction to the ATLANTIS study. 
  • Upper airway reconstruction using long-range optical coherence tomography: Effects of airway curvature on airflow resistance. 
  • Use of a revascularized, tubed costal myoperiosteal graft for repair of circumferential, segmental tracheal defects. 
  • Validation of a cadaveric model for comprehensive physiologic and anatomic evaluation of rhinoplastic techniques. 
  • Ventilatory muscle loads and the frequency-tidal volume pattern during inspiratory pressure-assisted (pressure-supported) ventilation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Case, Laura Elizabeth, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Chen, Jun, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Driehuys, Bastiaan, Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Frank-Ito, Dennis Onyeka, Associate Professor in Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Gunn, Michael Dee, Professor of Medicine, Immunology
  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine