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Spatial and functional relationships between air conduits and blood capillaries in the pulmonary gas exchange tissue of adult and developing chickens

Makanya, Andrew N. ; El-Darawish, Yosif ; Kavoi, Boniface M. ; Djonov, Valentin

In: Microscopy Research and Technique, 2011, vol. 74, no. 2, p. 159–169

The documented data regarding the three-dimensional structure of the air capillaries (ACs), the ultimate sites of gas exchange in the avian lung is contradictory. Further, the mode of gas exchange, described as cross-current has not been clearly elucidated. We studied the temporal and spatial arrangement of the terminal air conduits of the chicken lung and their relationship with the blood...