Normal and abnormal lung development in mouse and man Robbert Rottier Dick Tibboel [email protected] Erasmus MC – Sophia Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatric Surgery Rotterdam, The Netherlands Topics of this presentation - General introduction early lung development - Role of Sox2 in lung development - Hif2α and type II cell differentiation - Pulmonary hypertension of the newborn Embryonic origin of the lung ? Cardoso, 2006 Regionalization of the primitive gut Wells and Melton, 2000 Specification of prospective lung field Signals emanate from the heart ... Serls et al., 2005 Specification of prospective lung field Desai et al., 2006 Lung bud induction Tbx4 misexpression Ectopic bud formation Fgf10 induction ! Tbx4 induces buds from the gut and local Fgf10 Sakiyama et al., 2003 Regionalization of lung bud Morrisey and Hogan, 2010 Lung development ? Primitive gut towards complex lung? Processes during lung development growth differentiation alveolar morphogenesis saccular embryogenesis canalicular pseudoglandular embryonic gestational time
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