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Overview of lung development
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Lung development is subdivided into 5 morphologically defined stages Embryonic - Pseudoglandular - Canalicular - Saccular - Alveolar |
Stages correlated to development of airways Initial airways are all of the conducting system |
Stages correlated to development of blood vessels |
Ventilatory unit is a tree of alveolar ducts served by a most distal respiratory bronchiole.
Acinus is defined as a small tree of airways served by a most distal purely conducting airway (terminal bronchiole). |
On average a human airway ends after 23 generations (range 18–30) in an alveolar saccule. | A capillary plexus surrounding the growing lung buds give rise to the pre-acinar arteries by the mechanism of vasculogenesis. The intra-acinar arteries are formed by angiogenesis. |
In mouse and rat the acini and the ventilatory units are the same entity because they do not possess any respiratory bronchioles.
(above text modified from figure information)
Reference
Schittny JC. (2018). How high resolution 3-dimensional imaging changes our understanding of postnatal lung development. Histochem. Cell Biol. , 150, 677-691. PMID: 30390117 DOI.
Based on Hislop (2005) and adapted from Schittny (2014).
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