Lung organogenesis

D Warburton, A El-Hashash, G Carraro, C Tiozzo… - Current topics in …, 2010 - Elsevier
Developmental lung biology is a field that has the potential for significant human impact:
lung disease at the extremes of age continues to cause major morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Understanding how the lung develops holds the promise that investigators can
use this knowledge to aid lung repair and regeneration. In the decade since the “molecular
embryology” of the lung was first comprehensively reviewed, new challenges have emerged—
and it is on these that we focus the current review. Firstly, there is a critical need to …