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ArticleScientific reports2024

High resolution fluorescence imaging of the alveolar scaffold as a novel tool to assess lung injury.

Sandra Lindstedt, Qi Wang, Anna Niroomand, Martin Stenlo, Snejana Hyllen, Leif Pierre, Franziska Olm, Nicholas B Bechet

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra LindstedtWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. sandra.lindstedt@med.lu.se.
Qi WangWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Anna NiroomandWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Martin StenloWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Snejana HyllenWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Leif PierreWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Franziska OlmWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Nicholas B BechetWallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Nicholas.bechet@med.lu.se.
Lund University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute lung injury (ALI) represents an aetiologically diverse form of pulmonary damage. Part of the assessment and diagnosis of ALI depends on skilled observer-based scoring of brightfield microscopy tissue sections. Although this readout is sufficient to determine gross alterations in tissue structure, its categorical scores lack the sensitivity to describe more subtle changes in lung morphology. To generate a more sensitive readout of alveolar perturbation we carried out high resolution immunofluorescence imaging on 200 μm lung vibratome sections from baseline and acutely injured porcine lung tissue, stained with a tomato lectin, Lycopersicon Esculentum Dylight-488. With the ability to resolve individual alveoli along with their inner and outer wall we generated continuous readouts of alveolar wall thickness and circularity. From 212 alveoli traced from 10 baseline lung samples we established normal distributions for alveolar wall thickness (27.37; 95% CI [26.48:28.26]) and circularity (0.8609; 95% CI [0.8482:0.8667]) in healthy tissue. Compared to acutely injured lung tissue baseline tissue exhibited a significantly lower wall thickness (26.86 ± 0.4998 vs 50.55 ± 4.468; p = 0.0003) and higher degree of circularityϕ≤ (0.8783 ± 0.01965 vs 0.4133 ± 0.04366; p < 0.0001). These two components were subsequently combined into a single more sensitive variable, termed the morphological quotient (MQ), which exhibited a significant negative correlation (R

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Acute Lung InjuryLungAnimalsMicroscopyOptical ImagingPulmonary AlveoliSwine

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PMID38509285
PMCPMC10954697
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