Terminal bronchiolar duct ending number does not increase post-natally in normal infants

Early Human Development

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-200

  Beech, D J ^a   Sibbons, P D ^b   Howard, C V ^a   Van Velzen, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWICK PARK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c Westeinde Zienkenhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lung development; Organ development; Terminal bronchiolar duct endings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRONCHIOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANOGENESIS; OXYGENATION; POSTNATAL CARE;

AGING; BRONCHI; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MICROTOMY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0034284433     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(00)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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