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Lung - Foreign Material - Gallery

Image of foreign material in the lung from a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat in a chronic study
Lung, Alveolus - Foreign material in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a subchronic study. The black material is considered to be the test agent.
Image of foreign material in the lung from a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat in a chronic study
Lung, Alveolus - Foreign material in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a subchronic study (higher magnification of Figure 1). The black material is considered to be the test agent, and the majority is contained within alveolar macrophages.
Image of foreign material in the lung from a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat in a subchronic study
Lung, Alveolus - Foreign material in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a subchronic study. The brown to black material within the macrophages is considered to be the test agent.
Image of foreign material in the lung from a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat in a subchronic study
Lung, Alveolus - Foreign material in a male Harlan Sprague-Dawley rat from a subchronic study. The brown to black material associated with the alveolar proteinosis is considered to be the test agent.