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Pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins: their role in surface tension reduction

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The Surfactant System of the Lung

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It is generally, albeit not universally [1,2], accepted that pulmonary surfactant stabilizes the lung by lowering the surface tension at the air-water interface of the alveoli. The requirement for pulmonary surfactant is particularly critical at birth when the newborn infant must clear its lungs of fetal pulmonary fluid and establish regular air breathing. Indeed, as outlined in detail in other chapters of this book, treatment of prematurely delivered infants with extracts of bovine or porcine surfactant leads to a significant reduction in the incidence and in the intensity of the respiratory distress syndrome of the neonate [3–5].

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Second Institute of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    E. V. Cosmi

  2. Institute of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Perugia, Policlinico Monteluce, Perugia, Italy

    G. C. Di Renzo

  3. Second Institute of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    M. M. Anceschi

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Possmayer, F., Cockshutt, A., Yu, SH. (1991). Pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins: their role in surface tension reduction. In: Cosmi, E.V., Di Renzo, G.C., Anceschi, M.M. (eds) The Surfactant System of the Lung. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12553-1_2

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