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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein B

Preferred term

Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein B  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Pulmonary Surfactant Associated Protein SP B
  • Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein SP-B
  • SP B Protein
  • SP-B Protein
  • SP B Pulmonary Surfactant Associated Protein
  • SP-B Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein
  • Surfactant Protein SP B
  • Surfactant Protein SP-B

Scope note

  • A pulmonary surfactant associated-protein that plays an essential role in alveolar stability by lowering the surface tension at the air-liquid interface. Inherited deficiency of pulmonary surfactant-associated protein B is one cause of RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN.

History note

  • 2003; use PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN B (NM) 1989-2002

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D037701

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