Stillwater has been sister city to Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, since 1985. The State of Oklahoma and Kyoto Prefecture signed a sister state agreement in 1985 through the auspices of the governorâs office.
The search for reparative cells that can contribute to the process of lung regeneration, whether called progenitors or stem cells, has been fueled by the need for improved clinical therapies to treat patients suffering from the burden of diseases that arise from injury or degeneration of lung tissue.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A pulmonary consolidation is a region of (normally compressible) lung tissue that has filled with liquid, a condition marked by induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung. It is considered a radiologic sign.igns that consolidation may have occurred include: 1  Expansion of the thorax on inspiration is reduced on the affected side. 2  Vocal fremitus is increased on the side with consolidation. 3  Percussion is dull in affected area.