Formation of pulmonary alveoli and gas-exchange surface area: Quantitation and regulation

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 1996, Pages 73-92

  Massaro, Gloria D ^a   Massaro, Donald ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

corticosteroid hormones; fibroblasts; glucocorticosteroid hormones; hyperoxia; hypoxia; morphometry; oxygen consumption; retinoic acid

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; OXYGEN; RETINOIC ACID;

FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0029918030     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.58.030196.000445     Document Type: Review

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