Atrophy of bronchial epithelium: Ultrastructural-metabolic analysis of the bronchial mucosa in chronic bronchitis

Complex morphological analysis of bronchial biopsy specimens shows two forms of the atrophic process in the bronchial mucosa: the primary dystrophic form, whose basis is the syndrome of regenerative-plastic insufficiency, and the primary inflammatory form developing at the end of chronic inflammation. Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 118, № 10, pp. 444–448, October, 1994 Presented by D. S. Sarkisov, Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences