title: Regulation of alveolar formation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Massaro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D011441:Propylthiouracil / Q000494:pharmacology; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D013963:Thyroid Hormones / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D013963:Thyroid Hormones; D011441:Propylthiouracil; D003907:Dexamethasone