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New ventilator-on-a-chip model enables real-time detection of lung injury at cellular level (medicalxpress.com)

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For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs.

In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model developed at The Ohio State University, researchers found that shear stress from the collapse and reopening of the air sacs is the most injurious type of damage.

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