Abstract:
:The study of distal lung morphogenesis and vascular development would be greatly facilitated by an in vitro or ex vivo experimental model. In this study we show that the growth of mouse embryonic day 12.5 lung rudiments implanted underneath the kidney capsules of syngeneic or immunodeficient hosts follows closely lung development in utero. The epithelium develops extensively with both proximal and distal differentiation to the saccular stage. The vasculature also develops extensively. Large blood vessels accompany large airways and capillaries develop within the saccular walls. Interestingly, vessels in the lung grafts develop from endothelial progenitor cells endogenous to the explants and host vessels do not vascularize the grafts independently. This suggests that embryonic lungs possess mechanisms to prevent the inappropriate ingrowth of surrounding vessels. However, vessels in the lung grafts do connect to host vessels, showing that embryonic lungs have the ability to stimulate host angiogenesis and recruit host vessel connections. These data support the hypothesis that the lung vasculature develops by both vasculogenic and angiogenic processes: a vascular network develops in situ in lung mesenchyme, which is then connected to angiogenic processes from central vessels. The lung renal capsule allograft is thus an excellent model to study the development of the pulmonary vasculature and of late fetal lung development that requires a functional blood supply.
journal_name
Mech Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of developmentauthors
Vu TH,Alemayehu Y,Werb Zdoi
10.1016/s0925-4773(02)00451-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-03-01 00:00:00pages
305-13issue
3eissn
0925-4773issn
1872-6356pii
S0925477302004513journal_volume
120pub_type
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