pulmonary surfactant
A substance formed by type II alveolar cells composed of surface-active lipoprotein complex (phospholipoprotein). [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_surfactant ]
Synonyms: type II pneumocyte secretion, alveolar surfactant, lung surfactant
Term info
database cross reference
- EMAPA:36551
- MESH:D011663
- FMA:62780
- UMLS:C0034085 (ncithesaurus:Lung_Surfactant)
- Wikipedia:Pulmonary_surfactant
- MA:0002534
- NCIT:C13273
Subsets
pheno_slim
UBPROP 0000009
surfactant
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0008826
prefLabel
Pulmonary surfactant