2014 Group Project 1
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The Group assessment for 2014 will be an online project on Fetal Development of a specific System.
This page is an undergraduate science embryology student and may contain inaccuracies in either description or acknowledgements. |
Respiratory
Introduction
Airway and blood vessel interaction during lung development.
A retinoic acid–dependent network in the foregut controls formation of the mouse lung primordium.
Lung epithelial branching program antagonizes alveolar differentiation.
Current Research, Models and Findings
Physiological factors in fetal lung growth
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This article looks at the current findings of different physiological factors that affect normal neonatal, functioning lungs upon during fetal development. The size of the paired organ to be able to exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen for the very first time at birth, is crucial to be able to withstand that pressure. As we know surfactant, is a lipid-protein composite. It is crucial to the function of the neonatal lung because:
A. Its high viscosity and low surface tension stabilize the diameter of the alveoli and prevent their collapse after each expiration.
B. Because the alveoli remain partially open, they are expanded on inspiration with much less expenditure of energy. [ANAT 2241 LEC 11-Respriation]
However, current research suggests that the production of surfactant which is reliant on hormonal factors, have little influence on fetal lung growth. In contrast, the following physiological lung growth factors were found to permit the lungs to express their inherent growth potential.
[this will be looked at further as the research project progresses]
Lung morphogenesis revisited: old facts, current ideas
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Classical ideas -4 basic rules vs their review
Genetic control of lung development
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Current concepts of lung development
Effects of hormones on fetal lung development
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The fetal respiratory system as target for antenatal therapy
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Historic findings
Abnormalities
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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
- Down-regulation of sonic hedgehog expression in pulmonary hypoplasia is associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Computer simulation analysis of normal and abnormal development of the mammalian diaphragm.
- Outcomes of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a population-based study in Western Australia.
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Laryngo-tracheo-oesophageal clefts
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.
- Surfactant Metabolism Dysfunction and Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease (chILD).
- Evaluation of fetal vocal cords to select candidates for successful fetoscopic treatment of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome: preliminary case series.
- The epidemiology of meconium aspiration syndrome: incidence, risk factors, therapies, and outcome.
- Antenatal infection/inflammation and postnatal lung maturation and injury.