Article
Progenitor cells of the adult human airway involved in submucosal gland development.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Jul 1995
Engelhardt J F, Schlossberg H, Yankaskas J R, Dudus L
Abstract excerpt
A bronchial xenograft model of the human airway was used to identify submucosal gland progenitor cells within the surface airway epithelium. Lineage analysis using recombinant retroviruses has demonstrated considerable diversity in the cellular composition of expanded clones within reconstituted...
Topics
- Animals
- Bronchi
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Clone Cells
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Endocrine Glands
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Models, Biological
- Morphogenesis
- Mucous Membrane
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Retroviridae
- Stem Cells