Surfactant levels in congenital diaphragmatic hernia

PLoS Med. 2007 Jul 31;4(7):e243. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040243.

Abstract

Marcus Davey discusses a new autopsy study that found that pulmonary surfactant content is not decreased in congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Blotting, Western
  • Fetus / metabolism
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / genetics
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / metabolism*
  • Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital
  • Humans
  • Lung / embryology
  • Lung / metabolism
  • Pulmonary Surfactants / metabolism*
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

  • Pulmonary Surfactants