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Normal surfactant pool sizes and inhibition-resistant surfactant from mice that overexpress surfactant protein A.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Sept 1999
Elhalwagi B M, Zhang M, Ikegami M, Iwamoto H S, Morris R E, Miller M L, Dienger K, McCormack F X
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary surfactant protein-A (SP-A) has been reported to regulate the uptake and secretion of surfactant by alveolar type II cells, to stabilize large surfactant aggregates including tubular myelin, and to protect the surface activity of surfactant from protein inhibitors. In this study we investigated the consequences of overexpression of SP-A on pulmonary homeostasis and surfactant function in transgenic...
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