Hypertonic saline alters electrical barrier of the airway epithelium

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-66

  Miwa, Masato ^a   Matsunaga, Mayumi ^b   Nakajima, Noriyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Shintaro ^a   Watanabe, Kensuke ^a  

^a DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DEXTRANS; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; TRACHEA;

EID: 33845964781     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.08.013     Document Type: Article

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