Response of Human Airways to Deep Inflation in Health and Disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/513842

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The trachea and bronchi contain muscle that when it contracts narrows the air passages and makes it harder to breath. In healthy people taking a deep breath relaxes this airway muscle and improved breathing. However, in people who suffer from asthma and chronic airflow obstruction deep breaths do not have the normal relaxing actions on airway contraction. This study will use lung removed as part of surgery for lung cancer to study how the relaxing actions of deep breathing work in human airways.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $281,037.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Respiratory Diseases

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

airway obstruction | airway remodelling | airway smooth muscle | asthma | asthma and COPD | chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) | lung function | respiratory diseases

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