Bronchial ligation enhances murine fetal lung development in whole- organ culture

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 869-877

  Blewett, Christopher J ^a   Zgleszewski, Steven E ^a   Chinoy, Mala R ^a   Krummel, Thomas M ^a   Cilley, Robert E ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchial ligation; fetal lung; lung development; morphometry; protein DNA ratio; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; DNA CONTENT; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030015484     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(96)90400-5     Document Type: Article

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