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Ahrendt, N., Steingrüber, T., Rajces, A., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Eisenberg, T., Magnes, C., Madeo, F., Sedej, S., Schmiedl, A., Ochs, M., Mühlfeld, C., Schipke, J.: Am J Physiol-Lung C. 2020;319(2):L312-24. To access the full article, click here: Obesity is associated with lung function impairment and respiratory diseases; however,

Sehlmeyer, K., Ruwisch, J., Roldan, N., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Front Physiol. 2020;11:386. To access the full article, click here: Surfactant protein C (SP-C) is an important player in enhancing the interfacial adsorption of lung surfactant lipid films to the alveolar air-liquid interface. Doing so, surface tension drops down enough

Ochs, M., Hegermann, J., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Timm, S., Nouailles, G., Matuszak, J., Simmons, S., Witzenrath, M., Kuebler, W.M.: Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(9). To access the full article, click here: Gas exchange in the lung takes place via the air-blood barrier in the septal walls of alveoli.

Hetzel, M., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Mucci, A., Nguyen, A.H.H., Suzuki, T., Shima, K., Buchegger, T., Dettmer, S., Rodt, T., Bankstahl, J.P., Malik, P., Knudsen, L., Schambach, A., Hansen, G., Trapnell, B.C., Lachmann, N., Moritz, T.: Haematologica. 2020;105(4):1147-57. To access the full article, click here:

Echaide, M., Autilio, C., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Cruz, A., Pérez-Gil, J.: Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):1385. To access the full article, click here: CHF5633 is a novel synthetic clinical pulmonary surfactant preparation composed by two phospholipid species, dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and palmitoyloleoyl phosphatidylglycerol (POPG), and synthetic analogues of the hydrophobic

Ruwisch, J., Sehlmeyer, K., Roldan, N., Garcia-Alvarez, B., Perez-Gil, J., Weaver, T.E., Ochs, M., Knudsen, L., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Am J Resp Cell Mol. 2020;62(4):466-78. To access the full article, click here: Surfactant protein (SP)-C deficiency is found in samples from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,

Tort Tarrés, M., Aschenbrenner, F., Maus, R., Stolper, J., Schuette, L., Knudsen, L., Lopez Rodriguez, E., Jonigk, D., Kühnel, M.P., DeLuca, D., Prasse, A., Welte, T., Gauldie, J., Kolb, M.R., Maus, U.A.: Thorax. 2019;74(10):947-57. To access the full article, click here: Rationale Dendritic cells

Rühl, N., Lopez-Rodriguez, E., Albert, K., Smith, B.J., Weaver, T.E., Ochs, M., Knudsen, L.: Int J Mol Sci. 2019;20(17). To access the full article, click here: High surface tension at the alveolar air-liquid interface is a typical feature of acute and chronic lung injury. However, the

Kloth, C., Gruben, N., Ochs, M., Knudsen, L., Lopez-Rodriguez, E.: Am J Physiol-Lung C. 2019;317(1):L109-26. To access the full article, click here: Bleomycin-induced lung injury and fibrosis is a well-described model to investigate lung inflammatory and remodeling mechanisms. Rat models are clinically relevant and are also widely