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In vitro surfactant protein B deficiency inhibits lamellar body formation.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Aug 2003
Foster Cherie D, Zhang Peggy X, Gonzales Linda W, Guttentag Susan H
Abstract excerpt
Surfactant protein (SP) B is essential for normal pulmonary surfactant activity and lamellar body genesis in type 2 cells. However, the role of SP-B in lamellar body genesis is poorly understood. We developed an adenovirus vector expressing antisense SP-B as an alternative in vitro model of SP-B deficiency to begin to explore the role of SP-B in lamellar body genesis. RT-PCR analysis revealed that antisense SP-B...
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