Cystic fibrosis: an overview.

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common inherited disorders of white populations. The isolation and cloning of the gene in CF that encodes the production of a transport protein that acts as an apical membrane chloride channel, termed cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), have improved our understanding of the disorder's pathophysiology and has aided diagnosis, but has also revealed...

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