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Effect of a reconstituted basement membrane on expression of surfactant apoproteins in cultured adult rat alveolar type II cells.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Feb 1990
Shannon J M, Emrie P A, Fisher J H, Kuroki Y, Jennings S D, Mason R J
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary surfactant, which is composed of phospholipids and three lung-specific apoproteins, is synthesized and secreted by alveolar type II cells. Previous work from this laboratory (Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1987; 931:143-156) has shown that cell-extracellular matrix interactions and cuboidal cell shape affect both the ultrastructural appearance and pattern of phospholipids synthesized by cultured rat type II...
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