Fatty diabetic lung: altered alveolar structure and surfactant protein expression

Pulmonary dysfunction develops in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in direct correlation with glycemia and is exacerbated by obesity; however, the associated structural derangement has not been quantified. We studied lungs from obese diabetic (fa/fa) male Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats at 4, 12, an...

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Main Authors: Foster, David J., Ravikumar, Priya, Bellotto, Dennis J., Unger, Roger H., Hsia, Connie C. W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Physiological Society 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838676/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20061442
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00041.2009
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