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  • adjective of or pertaining to a bronchiole.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the bronchioles of the lung

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  • adjective of or relating to or involving bronchioles

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Examples

  • Specifically it has been reported that K-Ras amplifies BASCs at bronchiolar alveolar duct (BAD) junctions and that these transformed stem cells form a stream that supplies lung tumor foci.

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  • The TMA contained core samples of normal bronchiolar mucosa and lung tissue.

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  • Good pasture syndrome • Lung tissue biopsy consistent with acute lung injury characterized by interstitial and intra - alveolar organization, intra - alveolar fibrin deposition, squamous metaplasia of bronchiolar epithelium and rare fibrin thrombi associated with hemorrhage.

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  • Six patients had DAD along with severe necrotizing bronchiolitis, characterized by extensive necrosis of the bronchiolar wall and a bronchiolar lumen densely infiltrated by neutrophils.

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  • The rate of bronchiolar cell proliferation was decreased and associated with the formation of an undifferentiated, cuboidal-squamous epithelium lacking the expression of markers of Clara cells (Scgb1a1), ciliated cells (FoxJ1 and α-tubulin), and goblet cells (Spdef and Muc5AC).

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