| Literature DB >> 21945366 |
Jennifer R Glasser1, Rama K Mallampalli.
Abstract
Pulmonary surfactant is a complex surface-active substance comprised of key phospholipids and proteins that has many essential functions. Surfactant's unique composition is integrally related to its surface-active properties, its critical role in host defense, and emerging immunomodulatory activities ascribed to surfactant lipids. Together these effector functions provide for lung stability and protection from a barrage of potentially virulent infectious pathogens.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21945366 PMCID: PMC3247641 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2011.08.019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbes Infect ISSN: 1286-4579 Impact factor: 2.700