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Science 8 September 1967:
Vol. 157. no. 3793, pp. 1204 - 1206
DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3793.1204
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Absorption of Intact Protein Molecules across the Pulmonary Air-Tissue Barrier

Klaus G. Bensch 1, Eduardo Dominguez 1, and Averill A. Liebow 1

1 Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

The majority of heterologous serum albumin and globulin molecules introduced into the pulmonary alveoli of dogs are absorbed into the circulatory system antigenically intact. This function of the alveoli has both physiologic and pathologic importance.


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