Table 5.

Antioxidant Compounds in Natural Surfactants

	Curosurf poractant	Survanta beractant	Alveofact bovactant	Infasurf calfactant
Doses
mg of PLs/kg	200	100	100	100
ml of surfactant/kg	2.5	4	2.2	2.86
SOD
U/mg of PLs	0.396a	0.474	0.027b	0.383c
U/ml of surfactant	31.7	11.9	1.21	13.4
U/dose per kg	73.3	47.6	2.6	38.3
CAT
nmol/min/ml of PLs	0.81d	2.60	1.58	3.23
nmol/min/ml of surfactant	64.80	65.00	71.10	113.10
U/dose per kg	149.80	260.00	157.80	323.50
Plasmalogens
mol% of total PLs	3.8±0.1	1.5±0.2	0.9±0.3	n.a.
PUPLs
mol% of total PLs	26±1	6±1	11±1	n.a.

^ap=0.019 versus Survanta.

^bp<0.0001 versus Survanta.

^cp=0.003 versus Survanta.

^dp<0.0001 versus Infasurf.

PLs, phospholipids; PUPLs; polyunsaturated phospholipids; n.a., not available.