Article
Regulation of the secretory phenotype of human airway epithelium by retinoic acid, triiodothyronine, and extracellular matrix.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Jun 1997
Yoon J H, Gray T, Guzman K, Koo J S, Nettesheim P
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of our studies was to identify factors which regulate the composition of airway secretions produced by normal human tracheobronchial epithelial (NHTBE) cells. Individual factors were removed from the culture media of NHTBE cells grown in air-liquid interface (ALI) cultures (which supp...
Topics
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Bronchi
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagen
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins
- Gels
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mucin 5AC
- Mucin-2
- Mucins
- Muramidase
- Neoplasm Proteins