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This information could lead to the possible modification of these pathways by pharmacological agents in order to modulate the composition of pulmonary surfactant, which is critical for normal respiratory function and for host defense mechanisms in the lung.
Our findings further characterize the signal transduction pathways that control surfactant protein gene expression.
For example, Surfactant protein C regulatory elements have been used extensively to drive high level expression of transgenes in the lung [ 1, 2, 3, 4].
This probe was a 202-bp fragment of a portion of the rat surfactant protein-B (SP-B) gene (emb|X14778|RNSPB) that is expressed only in type II pneumocytes and Clara cells [ 17].
Type II pneumocytes have been shown to increase the production of surfactant protein-A (SP-A) in patients with P. carinii pneumonia (PcP), and the increase of SP-A correlates with the organism load in the lung [ 12].