The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
reduced number of the flattened, branched squamous cells that covers more than 98 percent of the alveolar surface, and have thin (50-100 nm) cytoplasmic extensions to form the air-blood barrier essential for normal gas exchange
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decreased AT1 number; decreased ATI number; decreased Pulmonary alveolar type I cell number; decreased Type 1 pneumocyte number; decreased lung type 1 cell number; decreased membranous pneumocyte number; decreased small alveolar cell number; decreased squamous alveolar cell number; decreased squamous alveolar lining cell number; decreased type 1 alveolar epithelial cell number; decreased type I alveolar epithelial cell number; decreased type I cell number; decreased type I pneumonocyte number; reduced AT1 number; reduced ATI number; reduced Pulmonary alveolar type I cell number; reduced Type 1 pneumocyte number; reduced lung type 1 cell number; reduced membranous pneumocyte number; reduced small alveolar cell number; reduced squamous alveolar cell number; reduced squamous alveolar lining cell number; reduced type 1 alveolar epithelial cell number; reduced type I alveolar epithelial cell number; reduced type I cell number; reduced type I pneumocyte number; reduced type I pneumonocyte number