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Regulation of alveolar formation
1Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Hospital Practice (Office Ed.)
|September 15, 1990
Abstract:
Postnatal formation of alveoli and their capillaries is essential to overall development. It enables pulmonary gas exchange to keep pace with the body's metabolism. Hormones, nutrition, and oxygen tension appear to regulate alveolar formation, perturbations of which may lead to normal variations in lung function or contribute to lung disease.