Pulmonary Surfactant
Subtitle: Biochemical, Functional, Regulatory, and Clinical Concepts
Publisher: CRC
Published: April 22, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780849369247
Subjects: Respiratory medicine; Pediatrics; Pulmonary surfactant; Respiratory Diseases; Respiratory System Physiology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; therapeutic use; Health/Fitness; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Physiology; Pulmonary Surfactants; Respiratory Distress Syndrome
First sentence: Pulmonary surfactant is a complex of lipids - principally phospholipids - proteins, and carbohydrates which line the surface of lung alveoli and respiratory bronchioles.