What Is Obstructive Lung Disease? People with obstructive lung disease have shortness of breath because it's hard for them to exhale all the air from their lungs. Because of damage to the lungs or ...

If your lungs can’t hold as much air as they used to, you may have a restrictive lung disease. This breathing problem occurs when the lungs grow stiffer. Sometimes the cause relates to a problem with ...

Mucin concentrations are abnormally raised in each of the four muco-obstructive diseases — COPD, cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, and non–cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis — and these ...

Restrictive Lung Disease: Causes, Diagnosis, and Recovery Explained: By Ankita Marik Have you ever fell short of breath? Like, the kind of breathlessness that feels deeper than fatigue, like your ...

In normal lungs, the transporter ZIP2 (WT-ZIP2: the bullet train, or "Shinkansen", on the left side of the figure) controls zinc transport and delivers zinc to lung epithelial cells. For this ...

This educational activity is intended for pulmonary specialists and other members of the health care team who care for patients with obstructive lung diseases such as COPD and asthma. Asthma and COPD ...

Gross 5 and others, 8 using kymographic tracings, demonstrated that the total time of the maximum forced expiratory-ventilatory effort was remarkably constant among normal persons of all ages as ...

Difficulty breathing due to obstructive lung disease isn't enough to keep some people from smoking cigarettes. During 2007 to 2012, almost half (46.2%) of US adults aged 40 to 79 years with lung ...