PMID: 375785Mar 1, 1979Paper

Age-related changes in elastic fibers and elastin of lung

The American Review of Respiratory Disease
V RangaJ Sorensen

Abstract

The effect of age on the lung elastic tissue of inbred BALB/c mice were studied. Static compliance of excised lungs increased with age. Morphometrically determined total elastic fiber length increased with lung expansion in age- and sex-matched mice (r = 0.83, P smaller than 0.001), indicating an axial extension of elastic fibers. However, total elastic fiber length of aging lungs fixed at a distending pressure of 15 cm H2O showed no significant change despite an age-related increase in lung volume (male, r = 0.96, P smaller than 0.001; female, r = 0.95 P smaller than 0.001). The correlative finding of decreased elastin content (r = -0.87, P smaller than 0.001) indicates that there is a loss of elastic fibers in the aging lung. It is suggested that the absence of pseudoelastin fibers, as demonstrated by histochemical techniques, accounts for the observed differences in elastin content of aging human and mouse lungs.

Citations

Apr 19, 2016·Scientific Reports·Katharina DingerMiguel Angel Alejandre Alcázar
Dec 24, 2019·Frontiers in Physiology·Henri SchulteChristina Brandenberger

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