The respiratory surface in the mammalian lung is stabilized by pulmonary surfactant, a
membrane-based system composed of multiple lipids and specific proteins, the primary …

Pulmonary surfactant (PS) is a complicated mixture of approximately 90% lipids and 10%
proteins. It plays an important role in maintaining normal respiratory mechanics by reducing …

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid–protein complex, synthesized and secreted by the respiratory
epithelium of lungs to the alveolar spaces, whose main function is to reduce the surface …

Pulmonary surfactant, the lipid-protein material that stabilizes the respiratory surface of the
lungs, contains approximately equimolar amounts of saturated and unsaturated …

The composition of the pulmonary surfactant and the border conditions of normal human
breathing are relevant to characterize the interfacial behavior of pulmonary layers. Based on …

The pharmaceutical application of exogenous natural pulmonary surfactant preparations
has shown its efficiency in the therapeutical treatment of infants with Respiratory Distress …

The rate of change of surface pressure, π, in a Langmuir trough following the deposition of
surfactant suspensions on subphases containing serum, with or without polymers, is used to …

Survanta, a clinically used bovine lung surfactant extract, in contact with surfactant in the
subphase, shows a coexistence of discrete monolayer islands of solid phase coexisting with …

The delicate structure of the lung epithelium makes it susceptible to surface tension induced
injury. For example, the cyclic reopening of collapsed and/or fluid-filled airways during the …

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