This is specific to the tiny sacs of the alveoli. Small and fragile, they rely on a substance known as a surfactant to provide the surface tension needed to keep them from collapsing when we exhale.

Pulmonary surfactant phospholipids form monolayers and multilayers that reduce surface tension in the alveolus to negligible levels, thereby stabilizing the alveoli and maintaining lung volumes at ...

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipoprotein complex that consists of a variety of lipids -- primarily phospholipids -- and several proteins. The function of surfactant is to prevent lung collapse ...

Another factor in lung elasticity is surface tension. This is specific to the tiny sacs of the alveoli. Small and fragile, they rely on a substance known as a surfactant to provide the surface ...

Type 2 alveoli cells are smaller and responsible for producing the substance (a “surfactant”) that coats the inside surface of the alveolus and helps reduce surface tension.

Soap helps one clean up by reducing the surface tension of water, so that it can make direct contact with the dirt. That is, surfactants make water wetter, and help us breathe easy as well.

It makes breathing easier and prevents the lung’s tiny air sacs, known as alveoli, from collapsing after exhalation. ... The surface tension in this case is 25 millinewtons per metre. “That’s pretty ...

Linda Hall has a new exhibition, Surface Tension, currently up at the Thomasville Center for the Arts, which includes her collaborations with photographer Becki Rutta.

Alveoli have very thin walls (far thinner than a sheet of tissue paper) and are surrounded by a rich network of blood vessels (Fig 2). Loading… There are no cilia or mucus-producing cells in the ...