Plasticity in the airway epithelium

Abstract excerpt

Normal cell turnover as well as the response to injury require cell proliferation and differentiation. The airway epithelium maintains these processes throughout adult life. Controlled homeostatically, cell proliferation and differentiation usually restore, as an end point, the pseudostratified architecture of the normal mucociliary epithelium. After injury, however, cell proliferation and differentiation...

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