TY - JOUR
T1 - Bronchoalveolar lavage in the normal lung
T2 - Second of three parts: Cell distribution and cytomorphology
AU - Velluti, Giorgio
AU - Capelli, O.
AU - Lusuardi, M.
AU - Braghiroli, A.
AU - Azzolini, L.
AU - Panzani, L.
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - Bronchoalveolar lavage, performed on 15 healthy volunteers, enabled quantification and characterization of the alveolar cell populations. The subjects studied were 8 nonsmokers (5 males, 3 females) and 7 smokers (6 males, 1 female). It was found that in the smokers the macrophages increased compared with nonsmokers, both in absolute number (419, 000 vs. 138, 000/ml; p<0.005) and in percentage (93.8 ± 3.0 vs. 88.1 ±4.8%; p
AB - Bronchoalveolar lavage, performed on 15 healthy volunteers, enabled quantification and characterization of the alveolar cell populations. The subjects studied were 8 nonsmokers (5 males, 3 females) and 7 smokers (6 males, 1 female). It was found that in the smokers the macrophages increased compared with nonsmokers, both in absolute number (419, 000 vs. 138, 000/ml; p<0.005) and in percentage (93.8 ± 3.0 vs. 88.1 ±4.8%; p
KW - Bronchoalveolar lavage
KW - Pulmonary alveolar macrophages
KW - Pulmonary cytology
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U2 - 10.1159/000194664
DO - 10.1159/000194664
M3 - Article
C2 - 6494599
AN - SCOPUS:0021133237
SN - 0025-7931
VL - 46
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases
JF - Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases
IS - 1
ER -