SP-A as a cytokine: Surfactant protein-A
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Laxminarayana Korutla; David S. Strayer
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Pulmonary surfactant is a mixture of phospholipids and surfactant-associated proteins made by alveolar type II cells that is necessary for normal lung function. Surfactant secretion and reuptake by type II cells are regulated in part by interaction of surfactant protein-A (SP-A) with a specific rece