Adsorption of lung surfactant by particl
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M. Wiemann; C. Erlinghagen; J. Bruch; B. Rehn
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Particles adsorb biomolecules such as proteins and lipids from biological fluids. Accordingly, respirable particles (aerodynamic diameter <3 μm) inside lung alveolae bind molecules from lung surfactant (LS) which is composed of lipids (90%) and surfactant proteins (10%). In this paper w