In a healthy lung, excess surfactant is cleared and digested by immune cells called alveolar macrophages. Alveolar macrophages need to be stimulated by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating ...
The pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome is divided into eight categories: alveolar fluid transport, surfactant, innate immunity, apoptosis, coagulation, direct alveolar ...
In a healthy lung, excess surfactant is cleared and digested by immune cells called alveolar macrophages. Alveolar macrophages need to be stimulated by granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating ...
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is caused by a buildup in the lungs’ alveoli of a substance called surfactant that’s made up of proteins and lipids. The buildup can block air from moving ...
The alveolar epithelium is composed of two cell types: type II and type I cells (1). Type II cells are responsible for surfactant production and play a role in lung host defense. Type I cells ...
and the retrograde stimulation of alveolar type II cell surfactant phospholipid and protein synthesis by leptin. Each of these paracrine interactions requires cell-specific receptors on adjacent ...
Future studies of the effect of exogenous surfactant in children and adults ... the determination of differences between the degree of alveolar epithelial injury, inflammatory and innate immune ...