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Figure 3

From: Clinical and biological role of secretory phospholipase A2 in acute respiratory distress syndrome infants

Figure 3

Biophysical behavior of surfactant in terms of minimum surface tension (γ) reached by BALF samples, after 5 min of post-expansion adsorption in captive bubble surfactometry. Panel A: Illustrative results for one sample of each group: control (black full circles) and ARDS infants (open circles). Panel B: pooled data from cases and controls: mean minimum surface tension (γ) is higher in ARDS than in controls (*P = 0.04). Data are shown as mean. T-bars represent standard error.

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