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Cell
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CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.


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Surfactant: Fluid secreted by alveolar cells that reduces the surface tension of pulmonary fluids and contributes to the elastic properties of pulmonary tissue.
The scatterers are alveolar cells in the barbs of the feathers.
In this instance, University of Minnesota researchers were able to turn the MLPC into type II alveolar cells, which was confirmed by the presence of a definitive type II alveolar cell marker Co surfactant protein C (SPC).
 
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