… Lane 1 and 2 were loaded with gently scraped mucus from piglet trachea. Protein
standards (St1, St2) with molecular mass (Mr, kDa) of St2. Representative of three repeats. …

The beneficial effect of anticholinergic therapy for chronic lung diseases such as chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is well documented, although cholinergic stimulation …

Most MUC5B mucin polymers in the upper airways of humans and pigs are produced by
submucosal glands. MUC5B forms N-terminal covalent dimers that are further packed into …

The goal of this study was to determine whether the guluronate (G) rich alginate OligoG CF ‐5/20
(OligoG) could detach cystic fibrosis ( CF ) mucus by calcium chelation, which is also …

Background The mucociliary clearance system driven by beating cilia protects the airways
from inhaled microbes and particles. Large particles are cleared by mucus bundles made in …

A non-functional Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator (CFTR) leads to the
disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Although the CFTR is expressed in multiple organs, pulmonary …

Family planning is defined broadly by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the process
that “allows people to attain their desired number of children, if any, and to determine the …

Hypertonic saline inhalation has become a cornerstone in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (
CF ), but its effect on CF mucus is still not understood. In CF , mucus stagnates in the airways, …

… To Don and Peggy Meiss for teaching me to explore, and to Mary Sue Moore for always
believing that I would … The resulting limiting curve has infinite length, and fractal dimension ln 4 …

A ‘‘class’’-c orbit is one that rotates around a periodic orbit of class c-1 with some definite
frequency. This contrasts with the ‘‘level’’of a periodic orbit which is the number of elements in …