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Genetic variants of surfactant proteins A, B, C, and D in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2006
Pavlovic J, Papagaroufalis C, Xanthou M, Liu W, Fan R, Thomas N J, Apostolidou I, Papathoma E, Megaloyianni E, DiAngelo S, Floros J
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BPD_28D (O2 dependency at 28 days of life) and BPD_36W (O2 dependency at 36 wks post-menstrual age) are diseases of prematurely born infants exposed to mechanical ventilation and/or oxygen supplementation. In order to determine whether genetic variants of surfactant proteins (SPs-A, B, C, and D)...
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