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.
Given time, the lungs can heal from damage caused by smoking. Photo Credit cendrier image by Fabien Renoult from Fotolia.com. According to the chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, Norman Edelman, your lungs begin to heal themselves almost immediately after you quit smoking.