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- Title
You Are What You Eat: Diet-Dependent Changes in Pulmonary Surfactant.
- Authors
Hite, R. Duncan; Davis, Ian C.
- Abstract
An editorial is presented on the synthesis of surfactant lipids and proteins. Topics include lowering the surface tension of the alveolar lining fluid, surfactant facilitating alveolar expansion on inspiration, and preventing alveolar collapse at the end of expiration; and reducing surfactant adsorption, increasing hysteresis, and altering pressure–volume curves.
- Subjects
SURFACE active agents; PROTEINS; SURFACE tension; INSPIRATION; HYSTERESIS
- Publication
American Journal of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology, 2021, Vol 64, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
1044-1549
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1165/rcmb.2020-0582ED