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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Accelerates Compensatory Lung Growth by Increasing Alveolar Units

BACKGROUND: Deficiency of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is associated with hypoplastic lung diseases such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Provision of VEGF has been demonstrated to be beneficial in hyperoxia-induced bronchopulmonary dysplasia and thus could induce lung growth a...

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Autores principales: Dao, Duy T., Nandivada, Prathima, Vuong, Jacqueline T., Anez-Bustillos, Lorenzo, Pan, Amy, Kishikawa, Hiroko, Mitchell, Paul D., Baker, Meredith A., Fell, Gillian L., Martin, Thomas, Puder, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29638228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/pr.2018.41