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Fetuses of diabetic mothers with uncontrolled blood glucose levels tend to be hyperglycemic and hyperinsulinemic [ 1 ] . An increased incidence of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) has been observed in infants of diabetic mothers [ 1 ] . RDS is caused by inadequate amounts of pulmonary surfactant due to delayed lung development [ 2 ] . It has been proposed that high insulin levels can delay lung development in the fetus of the diabetic mother [ 3 ] .
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].
Our findings further characterize the signal transduction pathways that control surfactant protein gene expression.
Upon verification of successful amplification by gel analysis, each plate of second round PCR products was purified using Multiscreen-PCR plates from Millipore according to the manufacturers specifications, except that a pre-wash was incorporated to remove potential surfactant type agents present in at least some batches of the filtration units.
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].