Surfactant metabolism in newborns - Insights from imprecise measurements

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-224

  Jobe, Alan H ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPALMITOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SURFACTANT;

CATABOLISM; EDITORIAL; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIPID METABOLISM; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING;

EID: 0037342192     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2003.146     Document Type: Editorial

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