Developmental alveologenesis: Longer, differential regulation and perhaps more danger

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Massaro, Donald ^a,b   Massaro, Gloria DeCarlo ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 571481   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; INDOMETACIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULTHOOD; AGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RATS;

EID: 34548402101     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00258.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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