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Strategies for measuring airway mucus and mucins
Mucus secretion and mucociliary transport are essential defense mechanisms of the airways. Deviations in mucus composition and secretion can impede mucociliary transport and elicit airway obstruction. As such, mucus abnormalities are hallmark features of many respiratory diseases, including asthma,...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752894 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-019-1239-z |