title: [Surfactants in the digestive tube].
abstract: Epithelia of the gastrointestinal tract both synthesize and secrete surfactant-like materials. Like the pulmonary surfactant, these materials contain not only phospholipids, but also surfactant apoproteins, regarded until recently as specific products of the bronchoalveolar epithelium. Presented here are the various roles, most of them still speculative, of these phospholipids-containing products in the gastro-intestinal tract.
authors.affiliation: Inserm U319, université Paris VII, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rubio
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lacaze-Masmonteil
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bourbon
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ducroc
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004064:Digestive System / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D013501:Surface-Active Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D013501:Surface-Active Agents
vernacular_title: Les surfactants dans le tube digestif.