Elad David, Wolf Michael, Keck Tilman
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2008 Nov 30;163(1-3):121-7. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.05.002. Epub 2008 May 9.
Healthy humans normally breathe through their nose even though its complex geometry imposes a significantly higher resistance in comparison with mouth breathing. The major functional roles of nasal breathing are defense against infiltrating particles and conditioning of the inspired air to nearly alveolar conditions in order to maintain the internal milieu of the lung. The state-of-the-art of the existing knowledge on nasal air-conditioning will be discussed in this review, including in vivo measurements in humans and computational studies on nasal air-conditioning capacity. Areas where further studies will improve our understanding and may help medical diagnosis and intervention in pathological states will be introduced.
健康的人通常通过鼻子呼吸，尽管其复杂的几何结构与口呼吸相比会产生显著更高的阻力。鼻呼吸的主要功能是抵御侵入的颗粒，并将吸入的空气调节到接近肺泡的状态，以维持肺部的内部环境。本综述将讨论关于鼻腔空气调节的现有知识的最新情况，包括人体的体内测量和鼻腔空气调节能力的计算研究。还将介绍进一步研究将增进我们的理解并可能有助于对病理状态进行医学诊断和干预的领域。
