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Surfactant protein-D regulates surfactant phospholipid homeostasis in vivo.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 23 Oct 1998
Korfhagen T R, Sheftelyevich V, Burhans M S, Bruno M D, Ross G F, Wert S E, Stahlman M T, Jobe A H, Ikegami M, Whitsett J A, Fisher J H
Abstract excerpt
Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a 43-kDa member of the collectin family of collagenous lectin domain-containing proteins that is expressed in epithelial cells of the lung. The SP-D gene was targeted by homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells that were used to produce SP-D (+/-) and SP-D (-/-) mice. Both SP-D (-/-) and SP-D (+/-) mice survived normally in the perinatal and postnatal periods. Whereas no...
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