Aim of this thesis was to apply the stable isotopes technique to study pulmonary surfactant kinetics. Lung surfactant is essential to live, because it prevents the alveoli to collapse during normal breathing. Lung surfactant is composed of lipids and specific proteins, and nowadays it is well known that alterations on the composition and amount of surfactant are involved in acute and chronic lung diseases. This work presents two studies about lung surfactant kinetics. The first one is about the synthesis of disaturated phosphatidylcholine, the main lipid in the pulmonary surfactant system, in a murine model of unilateral acid injury. The second one explains an optimized procedure to evaluate surfactant protein B synthesis and a novel me...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules has been used for pharmacolo...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules have been used for pharmacol...
Little is known about endogenous surfactant metabolism in infants, because radioactive isotopes used...
Aims of the thesis are to describe new applications of stable isotope tracers, applied to study pulm...
Alveolar surfactant is the key physiological structure that every mammal utilizes to live while brea...
Introduction and Aims: Pulmonary surfactant is a complex mixture of lipoproteins synthesised and sec...
Deficiency or dysfunction of the pulmonary surfactant plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of r...
Deficiency or dysfunction of the pulmonary surfactant plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of r...
Respiratory distress syndrome is a common problem in preterm infants and the etiology is multifactor...
Pulmonary diseases has long suffered from a lack of clinical biomarkers for disease diagnosis, progn...
Little is known about surfactant metabolism in newborn infants, since radioactive isotopes cannot be...
Little is known about surfactant metabolism in newborn infants, since radioactive isotopes cannot be...
BACKGROUND: In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), it is well known that only ...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules has been used for pharmacolo...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules have been used for pharmacol...
Little is known about endogenous surfactant metabolism in infants, because radioactive isotopes used...
Aims of the thesis are to describe new applications of stable isotope tracers, applied to study pulm...
Alveolar surfactant is the key physiological structure that every mammal utilizes to live while brea...
Introduction and Aims: Pulmonary surfactant is a complex mixture of lipoproteins synthesised and sec...
Deficiency or dysfunction of the pulmonary surfactant plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of r...
Deficiency or dysfunction of the pulmonary surfactant plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of r...
Respiratory distress syndrome is a common problem in preterm infants and the etiology is multifactor...
Pulmonary diseases has long suffered from a lack of clinical biomarkers for disease diagnosis, progn...
Little is known about surfactant metabolism in newborn infants, since radioactive isotopes cannot be...
Little is known about surfactant metabolism in newborn infants, since radioactive isotopes cannot be...
BACKGROUND: In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), it is well known that only ...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules has been used for pharmacolo...
Variation of the isotopic abundance of selected nutrients and molecules have been used for pharmacol...
Little is known about endogenous surfactant metabolism in infants, because radioactive isotopes used...