mucociliary clearance
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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
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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