Book contents
- Fetal and Neonatal Lung Development
- Lung Growth, Development, and Disease
- Fetal and Neonatal Lung Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Genetic Programs Regulating Embryonic Lung Development and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation
- Chapter 2 Early Development of the Mammalian Lung-Branching Morphogenesis
- Chapter 3 Pulmonary Vascular Development
- Chapter 4 Transcriptional Mechanisms Regulating Pulmonary Epithelial Maturation:
- Chapter 5 Environmental Effects on Lung Morphogenesis and Function:
- Chapter 6 Congenital Malformations of the Lung
- Chapter 7 Lung Structure at Preterm and Term Birth
- Chapter 8 Surfactant During Lung Development
- Chapter 9 Initiation of Breathing at Birth
- Chapter 10 Perinatal Modifiers of Lung Structure and Function
- Chapter 11 Chronic Neonatal Lung Injury and Care Strategies to Decrease Injury
- Chapter 12 Apnea and Control of Breathing
- Chapter 13 Alveolarization into Adulthood
- Chapter 14 Physiologic Assessment of Lung Growth and Development Throughout Infancy and Childhood
- Chapter 15 Perinatal Disruptions of Lung Development:
- Chapter 16 Lung Growth Through the “Life Course” and Predictors and Determinants of Chronic Respiratory Disorders
- Chapter 17 The Lung Structure Maintenance Program: Sustaining Lung Structure during Adulthood and Implications for COPD Risk
- Index
- References
Chapter 12 - Apnea and Control of Breathing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2016
- Fetal and Neonatal Lung Development
- Lung Growth, Development, and Disease
- Fetal and Neonatal Lung Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Genetic Programs Regulating Embryonic Lung Development and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation
- Chapter 2 Early Development of the Mammalian Lung-Branching Morphogenesis
- Chapter 3 Pulmonary Vascular Development
- Chapter 4 Transcriptional Mechanisms Regulating Pulmonary Epithelial Maturation:
- Chapter 5 Environmental Effects on Lung Morphogenesis and Function:
- Chapter 6 Congenital Malformations of the Lung
- Chapter 7 Lung Structure at Preterm and Term Birth
- Chapter 8 Surfactant During Lung Development
- Chapter 9 Initiation of Breathing at Birth
- Chapter 10 Perinatal Modifiers of Lung Structure and Function
- Chapter 11 Chronic Neonatal Lung Injury and Care Strategies to Decrease Injury
- Chapter 12 Apnea and Control of Breathing
- Chapter 13 Alveolarization into Adulthood
- Chapter 14 Physiologic Assessment of Lung Growth and Development Throughout Infancy and Childhood
- Chapter 15 Perinatal Disruptions of Lung Development:
- Chapter 16 Lung Growth Through the “Life Course” and Predictors and Determinants of Chronic Respiratory Disorders
- Chapter 17 The Lung Structure Maintenance Program: Sustaining Lung Structure during Adulthood and Implications for COPD Risk
- Index
- References
Summary
Maturation of neonatal respiratory control is an essential component of the developing respiratory system. Transition from fetal to postnatal life requires continuous versus intermittent respiratory neural output to minimize the risk of apnea with resultant desaturation and bradycardia. Neonatal lung injury is a complication of our therapeutic interventions, many of which may be necessitated by apnea of prematurity. There is, therefore, a need to understand the physiologic maturation of respiratory control, which encompasses both chemo- and mechanoreceptor input to a developing brain stem. A significant contributor to progress has been the widespread use of xanthine (e.g., caffeine) therapy to enhance respiratory neural output. Future studies should identify mechanisms for the ability of such treatment to benefit both respiratory and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
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- Fetal and Neonatal Lung DevelopmentClinical Correlates and Technologies for the Future, pp. 223 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016