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Smoking shifts human small airway epithelium club cells toward a lesser differentiated population
8 Sept 2021
Abstract excerpt
Abstract The club cell, a small airway epithelial (SAE) cell, plays a central role in human lung host defense. We hypothesized that subpopulations of club cells with distinct functions may exist. The SAE of healthy nonsmokers and healthy cigarette smokers were evaluated by single-cell RNA sequencing, and unsupervised clustering revealed subpopulations of SCGCB1A1+KRT5loMUC5AC− club cells. Club cell heterogeneity...
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