Pulmonary surfactant is a critical component of lung function in healthy individuals. It
functions in part by lowering surface tension in the alveoli, thereby allowing for breathing …

Pulmonary surfactant is composed of approx. 90% lipids and 10% protein. This review
article focusses on the lipid components of surfactant. The first sections will describe the lipid …

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 …

Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare disease characterized by
myeloid cell dysfunction, abnormal pulmonary surfactant accumulation, and innate immune …

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

Pulmonary surfactant controls the surface tension at the air-liquid interface within the lung.
This system had a single evolutionary origin that predates the evolution of the vertebrates …

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

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a syndrome of reduced GM-CSF-dependent,
macrophage-mediated surfactant clearance, dysfunctional foamy alveolar macrophages …

Macrophages are critical to organ structure and function in health and disease. To determine
mechanisms by which granulocyte/macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) …