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pulmonary surfactant

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pulmonary surfactant.
See surfactant, def. 2.


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Adhesive Atelectasis Pulmonary surfactant is a physiologic molecule that is produced by alveolar type II cells.
Discovery Labs' technology produces a peptide-containing synthetic surfactant (KL-4 surfactant) that is structurally similar to pulmonary surfactant.
Current studies are investigating known polymorphisms in the pulmonary surfactant proteins important to host defense and in the Th2 cytokines, such as IL-13, that drive the asthma response.
 
 
 
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