terminal lung unit(English)

• the alveolar surface network is viewed as an agglomeration of alveoli that opens into the branching air spaces of respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts, and alveolar sacs and that these structures are covered by a continuous thin liquid layer bearing a monomolecular film of surfactants at the open gas-liquid interface. The inherent structural and functional instability given TLUs by a broad liquid surface layer of this nature has been mitigated by the discovery that the TLU surface is in fact an agglomeration of bubbles, a foam (the alveolar surface network) that fills the TLU space and forms ultrathin foam films
• ADSA, AS, BAM, CST, GA, MSD, NRDS
• Pulmonology, Neonatology
• https://pubmed.…ih.gov/9713987/