title: Balancing between stiff and soft: a life-saving compromise for lung epithelium in lung injury.
authors.affiliation: Lung Injury Center, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois kbirukov@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Konstantin G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Birukov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000502:physiology*; D008170:Lung Compliance; D055370:Lung Injury / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020545:Respiratory Mucosa / Q000502:physiology*