INFLUENCE OF AIR POLLUTANTS ON THE LUNG SURFACTANT SYSTEM
Department of Pathological Physiology (Chair of the Department Prof.Zaiats L.M., MD). State Establishment of Higher Education “Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University” In our experiments on 72 white male rats of “Vistar” line, using electronic-microscope and physical methods, we studied in dynamics (30, 60, 90 days) the condition of the lung surfactant system in two zones. Zone I - ecologically clean zone, zone II - distant part of the city with developed industry. There was determined that in the conditions of industrial atmosphere pollution the surface activity of lung surfactant decreased as a result of dysfunction of ultrastructural organization of alveolocytes of II type. The most expressed changes of the lung surfactant system were observed after 60 days of influence of air pollutants.