Counteracting the inhibitory effect of proteins towards lung surfactant substitutes: a fluorocarbon gas helps displace albumin at the air/water interface | Zendy

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Counteracting the inhibitory effect of proteins towards lung surfactant substitutes: a fluorocarbon gas helps displace albumin at the air/water interface

Author(s) -

Phuc Nghia Nguyen,

Mariam Veschgini,

Motomu Tanaka,

Gilles Waton,

Thierry Vandamme,

Marie Pierre Krafft

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

chemical communications

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.837

H-Index - 333

eISSN - 1364-548X

pISSN - 1359-7345

DOI - 10.1039/c3cc47840h

Subject(s) - dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine , fluorocarbon , pulmonary surfactant , albumin , chemistry , human albumin , chemical engineering , chromatography , biophysics , organic chemistry , biochemistry , membrane , biology , engineering , phospholipid , phosphatidylcholine

Perfluorohexane gas lowers the kinetic barrier that opposes the displacement of albumin by dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine at the air/water interface submitted to sinusoidal oscillations at frequencies in the range of those encountered in respiration.

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