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“In alveolar type II cells, chronic ingestion of ethanol altered cellular functions such as decreased surfactant processing, decreased barrier integrity, and increased sensitivity to cytotoxin-induced apoptosis in vitro and in vivo.”
“Recently, we established that chronic ethanol consumption also perturbs surfactant lipid homeostasis in the lung and that elevated concentrations of free fatty acids contribute to blocking essential AM functions, such as agonist-induced cytokine expression.”
“Treatment with an alcohol solvent transferred inhibitory activity to the wash, and mass spectrometry revealed surfactin , a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic, as the inhibitory compound.”
“At 134 DGA, surfactant phospholipid concentration in amniotic fluid was significantly reduced (P < 0.05) by ethanol exposure, and the composition was altered.”
American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology • 2011 | View Paper
“Therefore, we hypothesized that ethanol ingestion, via glutathione depletion, could alter surfactant phospholipid distribution between LA and SA forms and thereby exacerbate sepsis-mediated lung dysfunction in vivo.”
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research • 2002 | View Paper
“In acute poisoning this suppression is associated with direct injury of surfactant with ethanol and inactivation of surfactant with serum proteins, which appear in the alveolar space because of the edema of air-haematic barrier.”
“In the results of complex investigation of the lungs of 26 white rats, it was established, that there is the suppression of surface active properties of surfactant under influence of ethanol.”