Structural aspects of postnatal lung development - Alveolar formation and growth

Biology of the Neonate

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 313-322

  Burri, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alveolarization; Intussusceptive microvascular growth; Late alveolarization; Lung development; Lung growth; Lung microvasculature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG STRUCTURE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MORPHOGENESIS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745069841     PISSN: 00063126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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