Developmental BiologyAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care MedicinePeer-reviewed
Autophagy is impaired in fetal hypoplastic lungs and rescued by administration of amniotic fluid stem cell extracellular vesicles
Kasra Khalaj, Lina Antounians, Rebeca Lopes Figueira…·Augusto Zani
The paper shows that amniotic fluid stem cell extracellular vesicles restore autophagy in hypoplastic lungs, improving branching morphogenesis in rodent and human models.