Lung transplantation is the only treatment available for end-stage lung diseases; however, donor shortage a global issue. The use of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) organ regeneration promising approach. Nevertheless, methods expansion isolated hPSC-derived progenitors (hLPs) purposes have not yet been reported. Herein, we established an system hLPs based on their three-dimensional culture...

A retrospective study of laboratory reports of sputums examined in the first 3 months of 1977 and of 1978 showed some interesting findings, which were similar in these 2 years. Analysis of the findings demonstrated that information from a proportion of sputum cultures were not helpful to the clinicians. Probable causes of such unhelpful results and some ways to overcome these problems were disc...