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type I pneumocyte

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A type I pneumocyte is a flattened, branched pneumocyte that covers more than 98% of the alveolar surface. This large cell has thin (50-100 nm) cytoplasmic extensions to form the air-blood barrier essential for normal gas exchange. [ GOC:tfm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20054144 http://www.copewithcytokines.de ]

Synonyms: pulmonary alveolar type I cell, small alveolar cells, squamous alveolar cell, ATI, type I alveolar epithelial cells, membranous pneumocytes, type I alveolar cells, type 1 alveolar epithelial cells, type 1 pneumocyte, squamous alveolar lining cell, lung type 1 cells, AT1

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:62500
  • BTO:0000780
Subsets

human_reference_atlas

contributor

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1980-3228

creation date

2010-06-23T04:37:54Z

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Type I alveolar epithelial cell

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606