Meconium impairs pulmonary surfactant by a combined action of cholesterol and bile acids
Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Echaide, M., Cruz, A., Taeusch, H.W., Perez-Gil, J. Biophys J. 2011;100(3):646-55.
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Mechanisms for meconium-induced inactivation of pulmonary surfactant as part of the meconium aspiration syndrome in newborn infants, to our knowledge, are not clearly understood. Here we