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TNFα Affects Ciliary Beat Response to Increased Viscosity in Human Pediatric Airway Epithelium

In airway epithelium, mucociliary clearance (MCC) velocity depends on the ciliary beat frequency (CBF), and it is affected by mucus viscoelastic properties. Local inflammation induces secretion of cytokines (TNFα) that can alter mucus viscosity; however airway ciliated cells have an autoregulatory m...

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Autores principales: González, Claudia, Droguett, Karla, Rios, Mariana, Cohen, Noam A., Villalón, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28025644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3628501