The relation between surface tension and area in the alveolar lining film
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 269 (3) , 591-604
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1977.sp011917
Abstract
The properties of the rat alveolar lining film [surfactant] were studied by observing the behavior in a hinging drop, under reduced or increased ambient pressure, of bubbles derived from the lung. The maximum surface tension reached in the early stages of expansion of a lung bubble from the metastable state is about 34 mN/m.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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