Healthy and fibrotic lung tissue (IMAGE)

University of Zurich

Healthy and fibrotic lung tissue

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Healthy lung tissue contains many air-filled alveoli, in which oxygen is absorbed from the respiratory air into the blood (left). In fibrotic lung tissue, these have been displaced by connective tissue growths (right).

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Christian Stockmann, University of Zurich

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