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Surfactant gene polymorphisms and interstitial lung diseases

Pulmonary surfactant is a complex mixture of phospholipids and proteins, which is present in the alveolar lining fluid and is essential for normal lung function. Alterations in surfactant composition have been reported in several interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). Furthermore, a mutation in the surf...

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Autores principales: Pantelidis, Panagiotis, Veeraraghavan, Srihari, du Bois, Roland M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC64812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11806849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/rr163