The normal trachea is cleaned by MUC5B mucin bundles from the submucosal glands coated with the MUC5AC mucin

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 492, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 331-337

  Ermund, Anna ^a   Meiss, Lauren N ^a   Rodriguez Pineiro, Ana M ^a   Bähr, Andrea ^b   Nilsson, Harriet E ^a,c   Trillo Muyo, Sergio ^a   Ridley, Caroline ^d   Thornton, David J ^d   Wine, Jeffrey J ^e   Hebert, Hans ^c   Klymiuk, Nikolai ^b   Hansson, Gunnar C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway surface liquid; Lung; MUC5AC; Mucus; Respiratory tract

Indexed keywords

MUCIN 5AC; MUCIN 5B;

AIRWAY SURFACE LIQUID; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; GOBLET CELL; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; MUCUS; MUCUS GLAND; MUCUS SECRETION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMUCOSAL GLAND; TRACHEA; ANIMAL; EXOCRINE GLAND; METABOLISM; PIG; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; MUCIN 5AC; MUCIN-5B; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SWINE; TRACHEA;

EID: 85028533537     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.08.113     Document Type: Article

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