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Título: | Endoglin -CD105- immuno expression in human foetal and neonatal lungs |
Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
Editorial: | Murcia : F. Hernández |
ISSN: | 0213-3911 |
Materias relacionadas: | 618 - Ginecología. Obstetricia |
Palabras clave: | Endoglin Foetus |
Resumen: | Endoglin is a 180 KDa glycoprotein mainly expressed on endothelial cells of newly formed vessels. Its expression is increased by the hypoxia inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), a potent stimulator of VEGF expression. The relative hypoxic environment in which foetal lung develops favours HIF-1 dependent gene expression, including the endoglin and VEGF ones. Herein, we analysed endoglin immunoexpression in the human neonatal and foetal lung throughout gestation. Lungs from 18 foetuses (9-41 weeks), 7 preterm and 2 term infants were submitted to the immunohistochemical study. A slight immunostaining was found in some mesenchymal aggregates in the lungs of foetuses at the first trimester of pregnancy. At mid gestation, endoglin was evidenced in peri-tubular mesenchymal stem cells or in peri-canalicular vessels and in the endothelia of peri-bronchial vessels; by contrast, no immunoreaction was observed in case of Down syndrome or in a foetus with cardiac malformations. At late gestation and in preterm infants, endoglin antibody labelled endothelia of the alveolar capillaries and of peri-bronchial vessels. In case of alveolar capillary dysplasia (ACD) or macrosomy associated with maternal diabetes, endoglin expression was restricted to peri-bronchial vessels; no immunoreaction was encountered in foetuses with IUGR (intra-uterine growth restriction) or massive pulmonary haemorrhage. Lungs of term infants both displayed atelectasis; there was no evidence of endoglin immunoexpression in one case, whereby only the endothelia of peri-bronchial vessels were stained in the other. Our study suggests that lung vasculogenesis endures throughout gestation. Absence of endoglin staining in some pathologic conditions may reflect lung vasculogenesis disorders; nonetheless, since each pathologic state is represented by a single case in our cohort, further studies are required to clarify this issue. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Barresi, Valeria Grosso, Maddalena Vitarelli, Enrica Granese, Roberta Barresi, G. |
Forma parte de: | Histology and histopathology |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/29819 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Número páginas / Extensión: | 8 |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Vol.23, nº6 (2008) |
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