"Skin lungs" is not a recognized term in biology or medicine. Skin and lungs are distinct organs with separate functions:
- Skin: The largest organ in the human body, serving as a protective barrier against the environment. It helps regulate body temperature, prevents dehydration, and contains sensory receptors for touch, pain, and temperature.
- Lungs: The primary organs for respiration, responsible for taking in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide.
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- Lungs eliminate these unwanted, waste products from the body, through expiration (exhaling air out from the body). 3: Role of skin- In mammals, the skin does the excretion using the sweat glands, or oil glands, or sudoriferous / sebaceous glands present in them.
- Elastin is in the dermis layer of your skin, your lungs, blood vessels, ligaments, ear cartilage and other body parts that require elasticity.
- Recent findings support a greater focus on the role of skin exposure in the development of certain occupational and environmental lung diseases.
- A recent study shows that a gene that produces surfactant protein c — a key protein for lung function — is expressed in the skin and mouths ...
- Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are the most widely reported complications in SSc patients and the primary cause of death. It has been proposed ...
- We focus here on the role of neuronal signaling in regulating the immune system at two major barriers: the skin and respiratory tract.
- To investigate their direct role in fibrosis, human peripheral blood eosinophil sonicate was added to human lung or dermal fibroblasts, and proliferation ([3H] ...
- Immune responses and respiratory disorders are mutually linking gut-lung health. •. The gut-skin axis highlights how the gut contribute to the skin condition.
- Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune inflammatory disorder with multiple organ involvement. Skin changes present the hallmark of SSc and ...
- Progressive skin fibrosis within 1 year is associated with decline in lung function and worse survival in dcSSc during follow-up.
The phrase "skin lungs" likely reflects a misunderstanding or misuse of terminology. There is no known biological or medical function or organ referred to by this term.
