Development of the pulmonary airways in the fetal rat and its relation to the prenatal environment

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 219-226

  Rotschild, Avi ^a,b   Massoud, Emad A S ^a   Solimano, Alfonso ^b   Puterman, Martin L ^b   Sekhon, Harmanjatinder S ^a   Thurlbeck, William M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

airway branching; Lung growth and development; morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; LUNG; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029966407     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0496(199604)21:4<219::AID-PPUL3>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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