Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A
"Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An abundant pulmonary surfactant-associated protein that binds to a variety of lung pathogens, resulting in their opsinization. It also stimulates MACROPHAGES to undergo PHAGOCYTOSIS of microorganisms. Surfactant protein A contains a N-terminal collagen-like domain and a C-terminal lectin domain that are characteristic of members of the collectin family of proteins.
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D037662
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.503.280.249.600 D12.776.823.100
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Expression of surfactant-associated protein in non-small-cell lung cancer: a discriminant between biologic subsets. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 1992; (13):61-6.
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Peripheral airway cell differentiation in human lung cancer cell lines. Cancer Res. 1990 Sep 01; 50(17):5481-7.