Lung development
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pulmonary development.
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- Lung development is not necessary for diaphragm development in mice.
- In addition, morphologic lung development is precocious in the guinea pig, with advanced alveolarization taking place in utero.
- Lung development is considerably more complex than airway development in Drosophila, as there are more than 15 million airway branches in the human lung, plus a similar number of blood vessels.
- While the importance of canonical Wnt signalling in lung development is well established, the role of non-canonical Wnt signalling is less clear.
- Previous studies have established that lung development is severely disrupted in mouse mutants with reduced levels of the proto-oncogene Nmyc, but the precise mechanisms involved have not been explored.
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