Recommended reading

JHT Bates & A-M Lauzon 2007 – Parenchymal tethering, airway wall stiffness, and the dynamics of bronchoconstriction. J Appl Physiol 102:1912. 

JHT Bates 2015 – Modeling the impairment of airway smooth muscle force by stretch. J Appl Physiol 118:684. 

F Romanò, H Fujioka et al 2019 – Liquid plug formation in an airway closure model. Phys Rev Fluids 4:093103. 

F Romanò, M Muradoglu et al 2022 – Effect of surfactant in an airway closure model. Phys Rev Fluids 7:093103. 

JB Grotberg & OE Jensen 2004 – Biofluid mechanics in flexible tubes. Annu Rev Fluid Mech 36:121. 

SK Lai, YY Wang et al 2009 – Micro- and macrorheology of mucus. Adv Drug Del Rev 61:86. 

B Button, LH Cai et al 2012 – A periciliary brush promotes lung health by separating the mucus layer from airway epithelia. Science 337:937. 

PA Vasquez & MG Forest 2014 – Complex fluids and soft structures in the human body. In Complex fluids in biological systems… Springer, p. 53. 

C Patte, M Genet et al 2022 – A quasi-static poromechanical model of the lungs. Biomech Mod Mechanobiol 21:527. 

A Gonsard, M Genet et al 2024 – Digital twins for chronic lung diseases. Eur Respir Rev 33:240159. 

AO Stucki, JD Stucki et al 2015 – A lung-on-a-chip array with an integrated bio-inspired respiration mechanism. Lab Chip 15:1302. 

OT Guenat, T Geiser et al 2020 – Clinically relevant tissue scale responses as new readouts from organs-on-a-chip for precision medicine. Annu Rev Anal Chem 13:111.