NIH R01 · 2024
Developmental Heterogeneity of Pulmonary Endothelial Phenotype at Single Cell Resolution
Postnatal lung growth during alveolarization markedly increases gas exchange surface area. Rapid growth of the pulmonary vasculature during early alveolarization drives distal lung growth. As alveolarization slows, the vasculature transitions from a phase of angiogenic growth to quiescence, however the molecular mechanisms regulating this transition remain poorly defined. This gap in knowledge confounds efforts to develop targeted therapies to treat diseases of dysregulated angiogenesis and impaired alveolarization, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the most common complication of preterm birth. We recently employed single cell transcriptomics to define endothelial cell (EC) diversity…
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