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Mechanical forces play a key role in lung development and lung injury. Here, we describe a method to isolate rodent fetal lung type II epithelial cells and fibroblasts and to expose them to mechanical stimulation using an in vitro system.
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Wang, Y., Huang, Z., Nayak, P. S., Sanchez-Esteban, J. An Experimental System to Study Mechanotransduction in Fetal Lung Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (60), e3543, doi:10.3791/3543 (2012).
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