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Pulmonary surfactant composition and Laplace’s formula are explained.
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Alemanno, F. (2020). Pulmonary Surfactant. In: Alemanno, F. (eds) Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26721-6_10
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