From Birds to Humans: New Concepts on Airways Relative to Alveolar Surfactant

American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-11

  Bernhard, Wolfgang ^a   Haslam, Patricia L ^b   Floros, Joanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT;

AIRWAY; BIRD; BREATHING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS SURFACE TENSION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0346373641     PISSN: 10441549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2003-0158TR     Document Type: Review

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