The model comprises upper (Alberta ideal throat) and lower airway (plastic tubing) models and branches into two compartments (Michigan lung models) which differ in compliance and caliber of conducting airway.
A novel physical model of the respiratory system was constructed to simulate aerosol drug delivery in spontaneously breathing (negative pressure ventilation) IPF patients. Refinement of aerosol delivery technique requires new models to simulate the major alterations of lung physiology associated with IPF, i.e., heterogeneously reduced lung compliance and increased airway caliber. In patients with fibrotic pulmonary disease such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), inhaled aerosols deposit mostly in the less affected region of the lungs, resulting in suboptimal pharmacokinetics of airway-delivered treatments.
4Inserm U1253, Imagerie et Cerveau, Tours, France.1INSERM, Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, U1100, Tours, France.Sandrine Le Guellec 1,2,3, Laurine Allimonnier 1,3, Nathalie Heuzé-Vourc’h 1,3, Maria Cabrera 1,3, Frédéric Ossant 4, Jérémie Pourchez 5, Laurent Vecellio 1,3 and Laurent Plantier 1,3,6*
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