... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Infant Preterm Mechanical ventilation Pulmonary surfactant...

.... Cardiac function Pulmonary surfactant Patent ductus arteriosus Preterm infants Pulmonary blood flow Non-invasive ventilation Surfactant replacement therapy (SRT) has improved survival amongst preterm infants. SRT has traditionally involved endotracheal intubation followed by mechanical...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Pulmonary surfactant Respiratory distress syndrome SP-B analogue SP-C analogue Surfactant phospholipids Development of clinically active synthetic surfactants has turned out to be very difficult since highly active natural...

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... Respiratory distress syndrome Pulmonary surfactant Lamellar bodies LBC was determined within 15-30 s in automatic blood cell counters (three different) [ 16 ]. A minimum of 250-500 µl aspirate was centrifuged in 2 min by 500 g . Concentrations <8,000/µl reflected lung immaturity with development...

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... Pulmonary surfactant Preterm newborn Lamellar body count Stable microbubble test 26 01 2009 10 12 2009 16 3 2010 formerly Biology of the Neonate Original Paper Neonatology 2010;98:150 155 DOI: 10.1159/000279887 Received: January 26, 2009 Accepted after revision: October 12, 2009...

... Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; dDepartment of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif., USA; eDepartment of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, The Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden Key Words Pulmonary surfactant Synthetic surfactant...

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...Lambert M.G. van Golde The physiological role of pulmonary surfactant is probably not limited to conferring mechanical stability to the alveoli. Increasing evidence suggests that surfactant components, in particular the hydrophilic surfactant proteins SP-A and SP-D, play potentially important roles...

... of bacteria within the respiratory tract should be taken into account. 30 9 2009 Pulmonary surfactant Surfactant replacement therapy Surfactant-bacteria interactions Pulmonary infections © 1996 S. Karger AG, Basel 1996 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights...

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..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Pulmonary surfactant Respiratory distress syndrome Continuous positive airway pressure formerly Biology of the Neonate Review Neonatology 2008;93:309 315 DOI: 10.1159/000121457 Published online: June 5, 2008 Continuous Positive...

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...Aaron Hamvas; F. Sessions Cole; Lawrence M. Nogee Inherited disorders of pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins are rare but provide important insights into unique mechanisms of surfactant dysfunction. Recessive loss-of-function mutations in the surfactant protein-B and the ATP-binding cassette...

..., and bDepartment of Molecular Biosciences, Section of Veterinary Medical Biochemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden Key Words Pulmonary surfactant Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome Membrane protein Synthetic peptide Abstract Background: Modified natural...