Fetal and Neonatal Lung Development

This book provides an authoritative review of fetal and neonatal lung development.

List of contributors; Preface; 1. The genetic programs regulating embryonic lung development and induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation Finn Hawkins, Scott A Rankin, Darrell N. Kotton and Aaron M. Zorn; 2. Early development of the mammalian lung-branching morphogenesis Kathleen M. Stewart and Edward E. Morrisey; 3. Pulmonary vascular development Timothy D. Le Cras and Marlene Rabinovitch; 4. Transcriptional mechanisms regulating pulmonary epithelial maturation: a systems biology approach Jeffrey A. Whitsett and Yan Xu; 5. Environmental effects on lung morphogenesis and function: tobacco products, combustion products and other sources of pollution Cindy T. McEvoy and Eliot R. Spindel; 6. Congenital malformations of the lung Susan E. Wert and Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp; 7. Lung structure at preterm and term birth Jason C. Woods and Johannes C. Schittny; 8. Surfactant during lung development Timothy E. Weaver, Lawrence M. Nogee and Alan Jobe; 9. Initiation of breathing at birth Arjan te Pas and Stuart Hooper; 10. Perinatal modifiers of lung structure and function Suhas G. Kallapur and Sailesh Kotecha; 11. Chronic neonatal lung injury and care strategies to decrease injury Robert P. Jankov and A. Keith Tanswel; 12. Apnea and control of breathing Christopher C. Stryker, Andrew Dylag and Richard J. Martin; 13 Alveolarization into adulthood Manjith Narayanan; 14. Physiologic assessment of lung growth and development throughout infancy and childhood Anne-Marie Gibson, Sarath Ranganathan and Lex W. Doyle; 15. Perinatal disruptions of lung development: mechanisms and implications for chronic lung diseases Michael A. O'Reilly; 16. Lung growth through the 'life course' and predictors and determinants of chronic respiratory disorders Fernando D. Martinez; 17. The lung structure maintenance program: sustaining lung structure during adulthood and implications for COPD risk Norbert F. Voelkel and Masahiro Sakagami; Index.