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 is an essential lipid–protein complex to maintain an operative
respiratory surface at the mammalian lungs. It reduces surface tension at the alveolar air …

The pulmonary surfactant system constitutes an excellent example of how dynamic
membrane polymorphism governs some biological functions through specific lipid–lipid …

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

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid–protein complex that lines and stabilizes the respiratory
interface in the alveoli, allowing for gas exchange during the breathing cycle. At the same …

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 fish swimbladder is a unique organ in vertebrate evolution and it functions for regulating
buoyancy in most teleost species. It has long been postulated as a homolog of the tetrapod …

A fascinating link between sterols and molecular oxygen (O2) has been a common thread
running through the fundamental work of Konrad Bloch, who elucidated the biosynthetic …

The history of physiologic cellular–molecular interrelationships can be traced all the way
back to the unicellular state by following the pathway formed by lipids ubiquitously …

Multilamellar bodies (MLBs) are responsible for surfactant secretion in type II alveolar cells
but also accumulate in other cell types under pathological conditions, including cancer and …