Developmental alveolarization of the mouse lung

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2108-2116

  Mund, Sonja I ^a   Stampanoni, Marco ^b   Schittny, Johannes C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Morphometry, stereology; Postnatal lung development; Synchrotron radiation X ray tomographic microscopy; Three dimensional visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSCOPY; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY;

MUS;

EID: 49449111384     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21633     Document Type: Article

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