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Cytological characterization of apatitic calcium phosphate structures in bronchial epithelial tissue cultured from a child with cystic fibrosis (deltaF508).
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Nov 2001
Cantet S, Fanjul M, Brémont F, Midy V, Hollande E
Abstract excerpt
Patients with cystic fibrosis homozygous for the AF508 mutation have marked disturbances in ion exchanges in a variety of tissues. Alterations in intra- or extracellular levels of Ca2+ and calcifications have been observed in numerous tissues from such patients, although the nature and origin of such calcifications have yet to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated the formation of calcifications in the...
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