Article
Modeling Pulmonary Cystic Fibrosis in a Human Lung Airway-on-a-chip
2021-07-19
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<h4>Background</h4> Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), which results in impaired airway mucociliary clearance, inflammation, infection, and respiratory insufficiency. The development of new therapeutics for CF are limited by the lack of reliable preclinical models that recapitulate the structural, immuno...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7a2c577b-f7dc-59dd-93c1-9e2e54ba4ab0
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.07.15.21260407
