Is maternal copper supplementation during alveolarization protecting the developing rat lung against the adverse effects of maternal nicotine exposure? A morphometric study

Experimental Lung Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 243-260

  Maritz, G S ^a   Windvogel, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alveolar number; Alveolar volume; Alveolarization; Growth; Internal surface area; Maternal nicotine exposure

Indexed keywords

COPPER; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VOLUME; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COPPER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LACTATION; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NICOTINE; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037613586     PISSN: 01902148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01902140303785     Document Type: Article

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