The respiratory epithelium. Credit: BruceBlaus. Blausen.com staff (2014). Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm ...

The trachea has a number of adaptations: cartilage rings in the walls of the trachea help to keep it open ciliated epithelium and ... different parts of the respiratory system as shown here.

We don’t know much about the regulation of endocytosis and cell-to-cell transport in the muco-ciliary epithelium of the upper respiratory tract. Viruses, on the other hand, know all about it. We use ...

Avian and human flu viruses seem to target different regions of a patient's respiratory tract ... SAα2,6Gal bound extensively to epithelial cells in the bronchi and, to a lesser degree, to ...

The recent death of the 54-year-old woman from Pyrgos was caused by the same strain of meningitis that had infected the young ...

GSH in the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of the lower respiratory tract is thought to be the first line of defense against oxidative stress. Inhalation (nebulized or aerosolized) is the only known ...

This applied work has allowed me to continue to study the role of epithelial differentiation in the respiratory tract and to use disease models and our novel genes to study aspects of pulmonary cell ...

Zinc, in particular, plays a role in maintaining the integrity of the respiratory epithelium ... you can effectively support your respiratory system and reduce the risk of respiratory illnesses ...

After entering the body, the virus attaches to the epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract, which includes airways and the lungs. These epithelial cells form a protective barrier in the ...