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Histology of healthy and diseased airways of bronchitis and asthma. Smooth muscle thickening creates an increased pressure on the external airway wall. Inflammation of the mucosal lining is mechanically classified as growth on the internal airway wall. Both mechanisms obstruct the lumen and lead to difficulty in breathing; adapted from [14, 29].
