Ultrastructural and protein analysis of surfactant in the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri: Evidence for conservation of composition for 300 million years

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2543-2550

  Power, J H T ^a   Doyle, I R ^a   Davidson, K ^a   Nicholas, T E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Air breathing; Electro n microscopy; Evolution; Immunohistochemistry; Lung; Neoceratodus forsteri; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT; PROTEOLIPID; SURFACTANT ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; FISH; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LUNG LAVAGE; METABOLISM; MICROVILLUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION; FISHES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; PROTEOLIPIDS; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033200246     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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