Quantification of surfactant pool sizes in rabbit lung during perinatal development.
Methods are presented for the quantitative isolation of surfactants from fetal and newborn rabbit alveolar lavage returns and post-lavaged lung tissue homogenates. The phospholipid content of both fractions progressively increased between 27 days gestation and term (31 days). The tissue-stored fract...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
1988-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520388131 |