When pure individual synthetic lecithins became available for study (Baer and Kates, 1949, 1950), there was immediate interest in their possible use in cardiolipin antigens as substitutes for Pangborn lecithin. Rosenberg (1949) reported briefly on synthetic L-c-(dipalmitoyl)-lecithin in antigens for the Hinton, Kline, Rein-Bossack, VDRL, and Kolmer tests. He found that replacement of Pangborn's...

TOSHIMA, N., AKINO, T. and OHNO, K. Turnover Time of Lecithin in Lung Tissue and Alveolar Wash of Rat. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1972, 108 (3), 265-277 Turnover time of tissue and alveolar lecithins of rat lung was determined according to the decay curve of radioactivity as well as the precursor-product relationship by Zilversmit's equation, from specific activity of lecithin and its subspecies afte...

The respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is the most frequent postnatal complication of prematurity having a 25% lethal outcome even today (KEUTH [6]). The same author reports that RDS affects 8% of an unselected population of premature infants and 20% of a negatively selected population found in clinical departments for premature babies. Hence avoidance of prematurity is one of the most importa...