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Lung Surface Tension and Surfactant: The Early Years

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This chapter deals with work on pulmonary surface tension and surfactant and makes no attempt to be complete. Readers who wish for more information will find it elsewhere (17, 25, 22, 19, 64, 48). What I present here are ideas, people, and vignettes from the early years of the field that will soon be lost to view.

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Clements, J.A. (1996). Lung Surface Tension and Surfactant: The Early Years. In: West, J.B. (eds) Respiratory Physiology. People and Ideas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7520-0_7

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