Santiago J Assaf, Daniel V Chang, Christina J Tiller, Jeffrey A Kisling, Jamie Case, Julie A Mund, James E Slaven, Zhangsheng Yu, Shawn K Ahlfeld, Brenda Poindexter, Laura S Haneline, David A Ingram, Robert S Tepper
RATIONALE: While infants who are born extremely premature and develop bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) have impaired alveolar development and decreased pulmonary diffusion (DLCO), it remains unclear whether infants born less premature and do not develop BPD, healthy premature (HP), have impaired parenchymal development. In addition, there is increasing evidence that pro-angiogenic cells are important for vascular development; however, there is little information on the relationship of pro-angiogenic cells to lung growth and development in infants...
December 2015: Pediatric Pulmonology