mucociliary clearance
Sign in to saveAlso known as mucociliary transport, GO:0120197
The respiratory system process driven by motile cilia on epithelial cells of the respiratory tract by which mucus and associated inhaled particles and pathogens trapped within it are moved out of the airways
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Vinony's link graph records 63 inbound references to mucociliary clearance, and connects out to mucus, lung and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Histology and Respiratory system.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Research
5,631 papers- Airway Epithelial Differentiation and Mucociliary Clearance.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2018
- Cilia and Mucociliary Clearance.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2017
- Mucociliary clearance: pathophysiological aspects.Clinical physiology and functional imaging · 2014
- New path for understanding mucociliary clearance.Thorax · 2024
- Mucociliary clearance in the airways.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 1996
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capillary
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epithelium
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bronchus
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