Positive selection in the N-terminal extramembrane domain of lung surfactant protein C (SP-C) in marine mammals

NJ Foot, S Orgeig, S Donnellan, T Bertozzi… - Journal of molecular …, 2007 - Springer
Maximum-likelihood models of codon and amino acid substitution were used to analyze the
lung-specific surfactant protein C (SP-C) from terrestrial, semi-aquatic, and diving mammals …

Purifying selection drives the evolution of surfactant protein C (SP-C) independently of body temperature regulation in mammals

S Potter, S Orgeig, S Donnellan, CB Daniels - … Biochemistry and Physiology …, 2007 - Elsevier
The pulmonary surfactant system of heterothermic mammals must be capable of dealing
with the effect of low body temperatures on the physical state of the lipid components. We …

Effects of keratinocyte growth factor on intra‐alveolar surfactant fixed in situ: Quantitative ultrastructural and immunoelectron microscopic analysis

H Fehrenbach, A Fehrenbach, E Dietzel… - … Record: Advances in …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative (immuno) transmission electron microscopy using design‐based stereology
was performed on specimens collected by means of systematic uniform random sampling of …