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. 1975 Feb 1;64(2):503–509. doi: 10.1083/jcb.64.2.503

Ultrastructural immunoperoxidase demonstration of autologous albumin in the alveolar capillary membrane and in the alveolar lining material in normal rats

PMCID: PMC2109497  PMID: 1090632

Abstract

The location of autologous serum albumin within the alveolar-capillary membrane was studied in the rat under physiological conditions using antialbumin antibodies labeled with peroxidase. Albumin was detected in the lung interstitium, and in numerous pinocytic vesicles within endothelial cells and type I alveolar epithelial cells. The immunoreaction was also positive at the level of plasmalemmal membranes of both cell types and in the alveolar lining material.

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