… In humans, the concentration of AF SP-A decreases during labor, and no fetal macrophages
… and humans are different. We investigated a potential role for SP-A in human pregnancy …

Surfactant protein D (SP‐D) plays a role in innate immunity against various pathogens and
in vivo studies have demonstrated that SP‐D also has anti‐inflammatory properties. SP‐D …

… Localisation of surfactant proteins in female reproductive tract 5. SP-A and SP-D in amniotic
… This report emphasized that amniotic fluid surfactant proteins may have other roles besides …

… –8th weeks of early pregnancy for all surfactant proteins with a similar … of surfactant proteins
would significantly differ as pregnancy … during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. …

… According to transgenic experiments or genetic evidence in humans, surfactant proteins A, …
In human pregnancies the onset of surfactant secretion often takes place before the onset of …

Objective. The fetus is thought to play a central role in the onset of labor. Pulmonary
surfactant protein (SP)-A, secreted by the maturing fetal lung, has been implicated in the …

Surfactant proteins A (SP-A) and D (SP-D) are lung surfactant-associated hydrophilic proteins
that have been implicated in surfactant homeostasis and pulmonary innate immunity. They …

… pregnant … humans and mice is associated with a pronounced decline in uterine levels of
coactivators known to enhance PR transcriptional activity (5). We suggest that, during pregnancy…

… in human pregnancy … surfactant protein and phospholipid were noted in the presence of
oligohydramnios and in the presence of cytomeglovirus infection; decreased surfactant proteins …

We developed a simple and sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for human
pulmonary surfactant protein D (SP-D). Human SP-D was purified from bronchoalveolar …