The Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition in Developing Chick Embryo Lungs

dc.contributor.authorEsra Ucar
dc.contributor.authorÇöllü F.
dc.contributor.authorGürcü B.
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T11:04:26Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T11:04:26Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractAbstract: We identified the developmental stages of the chicken lung, and explored the histopathological effects of L-nitro-arginine-methyl-ester (L-NAME) on such development at different times. L-NAME was injected into the vitellus, at two different doses, on the day of embryogenesis 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 16. Sham-injected and experimental embryos were collected on the day of incubation 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, and 17. Chicken lungs developed in four stages: embryonic (4–7 days), pseudoglandular (8–14 days), canalicular (14–17 days), and saccular (or alveolar) (day 17 and postnatally). Most differentiation occurred in the pseudoglandular stage. L-NAME triggered mesenchymal tissue loss, reduced airway branching and lung volume, narrowed bronchial diameters, triggered formation of pulmonary emboli, enhanced alveolar protein accumulation, caused regional bleeding (hemorrhage), triggered abnormal blood vessel modeling, and reduced vessel diameter. Sham-injected embryos exhibited strong immunoreactivities against endothelial and inducible nitrous oxide synthase in the embryonic and canalicular stages; immunoreactivities were reduced at all developmental stages in the experimental group. © 2022, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1134/S1990519X22040101
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14701/45387
dc.publisherPleiades journals
dc.titleThe Effect of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition in Developing Chick Embryo Lungs
dc.typeArticle

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