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SUBMITTER: Lee DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085293 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Diane Frances DF Salguero Francisco Javier FJ Grainger Duncan D Francis Robert James RJ MacLellan-Gibson Kirsty K Chambers Mark Andrew MA
Scientific reports 20180809 1
Alveolar type II (ATII) cells play a key role as part of the distal lung epithelium, including roles in the innate immune response and as self-renewing progenitors to replace alveolar type I (ATI) cells during regeneration of the alveolar epithelium. Their secretion of surfactant protein helps to maintain homeostasis in the distal lung and exert protective, antimicrobial properties. Despite the cell's crucial roles, they remain difficult to study, in part due to inefficient and expensive isolati ...[more]