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pulmonary alveolar duct

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002173

The respiratory conducting tubes distal to the respiratory bronchiole that lead to the alveolar sacs and the alveoli. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/cwg http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ MP:0002271 ]

Synonyms: ductus alveolaris, alveolar duct, respiratory alveolar duct

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000008

In human anatomy, respiratory bronchioles exists proximal to the alveolar ducts. The epithelial lining consists of smooth muscle knobs covered by nonciliated, simple cuboidal cells. The smooth muscle constricts under parasympathetic innervation and relax under sympathetic innervation

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UBERON:0002173

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pulmonary alveolar duct, Alveolar duct

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606