Klassische und „Non-Surfactantfunktionen“ des pulmonalen Surfactantsystems

Injurious ventilatory strategies increase cytokines and c-fos m-RNA expression in an isolated rat lung model.

“…As surfactant has been shown to modulate secretion of cytokines and activity of a number of cells involved in the inflammatory cascade (42,43), a reduction of functional surfactant may have been responsible in part for the increased levels of lung lavage cytokines seen with the MVZP and HVZP ventilation strategies.…”