Premie has no surfactant
Angiotensin II - generated in hypovolemia
Dipalmitoyl lecithin aka dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine lung surfactant
Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate aka PIP2 Gq receptor pathway
Phosphatidylserine -involved in intrinsic apoptosis when exposed on extracellular surfaces
Sphinogmyelin - composes myelin and also has roles in signal transduction, apoptosis. Lecithin: Sphingomyelin ratio >2 indicates mature fetal lungs.
I think the reason they are being such little turds and calling it dipalmitoyl lecithin instead of DPPC is because there's a thing called the lecithin-sphingomyelin ratio which needs to be high in order to indicate that the fetal lung has matured. Both lecithin (DPPC) and sphingomyelin are present in fetal lungs, but the amount of lecithin shoots way up towards the end of gestation, raising the L:S and indicating lung maturity.
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literally know every single name they can possibly call this