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Lung Injury

"Lung Injury" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Damage to any compartment of the lung caused by physical, chemical, or biological agents which characteristically elicit inflammatory reaction. These inflammatory reactions can either be acute and dominated by NEUTROPHILS, or chronic and dominated by LYMPHOCYTES and MACROPHAGES.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lung Injury" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lung Injury" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 42 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2013
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