Evaluation of surfactant proteins A, B, C, and D in articular cartilage, synovial membrane and synovial fluid of healthy as well as patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

OBJECTIVE: Surfactant Proteins (SPs) are well known from lung and form, along with phospholipids, a surface-active-layer at the liquid-air-interface of the alveolar lining. They play a major protective role by lowering surface tension, activating innate and adaptive immune defense at the lung mucosa...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Hartjen, Nadine, Bräuer, Lars, Reiß, Beate, Claassen, Horst, Beileke, Stephanie, Garreis, Fabian, Hoogeboom, Sebastian, Tsokos, Michael, Etzold, Saskia, Müller-Hilke, Brigitte, Gelse, Kolja, Müller, Thomas, Goldring, Mary B., Paulsen, Friedrich, Schicht, Martin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147433/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30235245
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203502
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