"Surface-Active Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
	MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, 
	which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
	
	
		
			
			
				Agents that modify interfacial tension of water; usually substances that have one lipophilic and one hydrophilic group in the molecule; includes soaps, detergents, emulsifiers, dispersing and wetting agents, and several groups of antiseptics.
    
			
			
				
				
					
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							D013501
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						| MeSH Number(s) | 
						
							 D27.720.877 
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						| Concept/Terms | 
						
							Surface-Active Agents- Surface-Active Agents
 - Agents, Surface-Active
 - Surface Active Agents
 - Active Agents, Surface
 - Agents, Surface Active
 
  
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "Surface-Active Agents" by people in Profiles.
						
					
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Zuo YY. Comparative biophysical study of clinical surfactants using constrained drop surfactometry. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2024 Oct 01; 327(4):L535-L546.
															
								 
							
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Borchardt-Setter KA, Yu J, Stelzer T, Yu L. Surface Enrichment and Depletion of Components in a Ternary Drug-Surfactant-Polymer Amorphous Solid Dispersion. Mol Pharm. 2024 Aug 05; 21(8):4074-4081.
															
								 
							
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Li G, Xu X, Zuo YY. Biophysical function of pulmonary surfactant in liquid ventilation. Biophys J. 2023 08 08; 122(15):3099-3107.
															
								 
							
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Li G, Xu X, Zuo YY. Phase transitions of the pulmonary surfactant film at the perfluorocarbon-water interface. Biophys J. 2023 05 16; 122(10):1772-1780.
															
								 
							
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Xu X, Li G, Sun B, Zuo YY. S2 Subunit of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Domain Fusion in Natural Pulmonary Surfactant Monolayers. J Phys Chem Lett. 2022 Sep 08; 13(35):8359-8364.
															
								 
							
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Xu L, Yang Y, Simien JM, Kang C, Li G, Xu X, Haglund E, Sun R, Zuo YY. Menthol in electronic cigarettes causes biophysical inhibition of pulmonary surfactant. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2022 08 01; 323(2):L165-L177.
															
								 
							
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Yao X, Benson EG, Gui Y, Stelzer T, Zhang GGZ, Yu L. Surfactants Accelerate Crystallization of Amorphous Nifedipine by Similar Enhancement of Nucleation and Growth Independent of Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance. Mol Pharm. 2022 07 04; 19(7):2343-2350.
															
								 
							
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Kevill JL, Pellett C, Farkas K, Brown MR, Bassano I, Denise H, McDonald JE, Malham SK, Porter J, Warren J, Evens NP, Paterson S, Singer AC, Jones DL. A comparison of precipitation and filtration-based SARS-CoV-2 recovery methods and the influence of temperature, turbidity, and surfactant load in urban wastewater. Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 20; 808:151916.
															
								 
							
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Doan VS, Saingam P, Yan T, Shin S. A Trace Amount of Surfactants Enables Diffusiophoretic Swimming of Bacteria. ACS Nano. 2020 10 27; 14(10):14219-14227.
															
								 
							
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Xu L, Yang Y, Zuo YY. Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Adsorbed Pulmonary Surfactant Films. Biophys J. 2020 08 18; 119(4):756-766.