the pollution of water environments is a challenging issue especially in developing countries. contamination of drinking water with heavy metals has been reported in many parts of the world. arsenic, chromium and lead are dangerous heavy metals and also common contaminants of drinking water. in this study, the capacity and performance of the surfactant-modified sabzevar natural nanozeolite (sms...

Surfactant protein-A (SP-A) isolated from cow surfactant was added to organic solvent extracts of natural bovine surfactant or of Survanta (Abbott Laboratories), and dynamic compliances and pressure-volume curves were measured in rabbits with a gestational age of 27 days. Organic solvent extracts of natural surfactant and Survanta significantly improved dynamic compliances and lung volumes comp...

This review examines the 11 randomised clinical trials that have compared different surfactant preparations. Seven trials, enrolling 2488 infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), compared the natural surfactant beractant (Survanta) with the synthetic surfactant colfosceril palmitate (Exosurf Neonatal). Infants treated with beractant had lower oxygen requirements for at least 3 days tha...

To test an artificial surfactant in vivo, six 120-d gestational age lambs were treated at birth with a mixture of a 9:1 M ratio of [14C]dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPC) and phosphatidylglycerol at a dose of 100 mg DPC/kg. Nine other lambs were not treated. The mean PO2 values of the lambs treated with artificial surfactant were 65.7 +/- 11 mm Hg vs. 24.8 +/- 1.6 mm Hg for the untreated lam...

BACKGROUND Natural surfactant combined with beclomethasone decreases pulmonary oxidative stress in preterm lambs with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that this occurs through a decrease in pulmonary inflammation. METHODS Preterm lambs received 200 mg/kg of natural surfactant or 200 mg/kg of natural surfactant combined with 400 or 800 μg/kg of beclometh...

We evaluated the efficacy of a recombinant surfactant protein-C (rSP-C) surfactant in vitro and in vivo, using ventilated preterm lambs and rabbits. The surface tension measured with a Wilhelmy balance of the rSP-C surfactant was lower than the surface tension of natural sheep surfactant (containing SP-B and SP-C). The rSP-C and natural surfactants were equivalently sensitive to inhibition by p...

The key feature of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is the insufficient production of surfactant in the lungs of preterm infants. As a result, researchers have looked into the possibility of surfactant replacement therapy as a means of preventing and treating RDS. We sought to identify the role of surfactant in the prevention and management of RDS, comparing the various types, doses, and mod...

conclusions the findings of this study showed that the modification of natural zeolites can achieve higher adsorption capacity for organics. in addition, based on the results, natural zeolite being modified with sds as a cationic surfactant had good efficiency for the adsorption of nom. results the results indicated that sds-modified zeolite showed greatly enhanced adsorption capacity. findings...

Premature newborn rabbits, delivered on day 27 of gestation, were treated with tracheal deposition of dry artificial surfactant containing dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and unsaturated phosphatidylglycerol (7:3), or crude natural surfactant prepared by centrifugation of lung wash from adult rabbits. Before receiving surfactant, the animals were allowed to breathe for 7--27 min; they were then...