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Electron micrograph shows that surfactant in the airspace is present in multiple forms including lamellar body, tubular myelin and small lipid vesicles. (Picture courtesy of the Ikegami laboratory. |
Machiko Ikegami, MD, PhD: Surfactant metabolism and function
Paul Kingma, MD, PhD:
SP-D in neonatal sepsis, RDS, innate immune system, neonatal infection
Thomas Korfhagen, MD, PhD:
Surfactant proteins, lung infection, inflammation, and injury/repair
Ward Rice, MD, PhD:
Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating surfactant processing
John Shannon, PhD:
Lung morphogenesis and differentiation, and FGFs
Susan Wert, PhD:
Histopathology of abnormal lung development, injury / repair and human surfactant dysfunctions / mutations.
Jeffrey Whitsett, MD:
Lung transcriptional control, epithelial patterning and differentiation
Yan Xu, PhD:
Bioinformatics, systems biology of lung development and disease