Jean Pfau and Kinta Serve explore a critical and novel hypothesis concerning the size of fibers in asbestos disease ...

Thinking about how asthma and allergic diseases arise is undergoing several shifts. In 'Bedside to Bench', Clare M. Lloyd and Sejal Saglani examine how recent human studies are putting the focus ...

IL-13 alters mucociliary differentiation and ciliary beating of human respiratory epithelial cells. J Clin Invest. 2001;108(12):1817-1824. Aparna is a freelance science writer with a PhD in ...

The main barrier to nasal delivery of insulin is a process called mucociliary clearance, which is designed to remove foreign bodies from the nasal cavity. During this process, nasal cilia beat in a ...

After a latent period of 48 to 72 hours, toxin-mediated damage to the bronchial mucosa causes loss of mucociliary transport, bronchial edema, and cellular necrosis. The clinical picture includes ...

Mucociliary dysfunction, chronic infections with advancing immunosenescence and pulmonary emphysema as seen in COPD may be just as relevant to ACOS. Possible drug targets include receptors of the ...