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ArticleJCI insight2018

Development of an airway mucus defect in the cystic fibrosis rat.

Susan E Birket, Joy M Davis, Courtney M Fernandez, Katherine L Tuggle, Ashley M Oden, Kengyeh K Chu, Guillermo J Tearney, Michelle V Fanucchi, Eric J Sorscher, Steven M Rowe

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Article in JCI insight, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
11.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Susan E BirketDepartment of Medicine and.
Joy M DavisDepartment of Medicine and.
Courtney M FernandezDepartment of Medicine and.
Katherine L TuggleCystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Ashley M OdenDepartment of Medicine and.
Kengyeh K ChuWellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Guillermo J TearneyWellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Michelle V FanucchiDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Eric J SorscherDepartment of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Steven M RoweDepartment of Medicine and.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · USEmory University · USHarvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

UAB CF Research and Translation Core CenterP30DK072482 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI George Martin Solomon · 2007 to 2026
$23.0M
Translational Program in CFTR-Related Airway DiseasesR35HL135816 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ROWE, STEVEN MARK · 2017 to 2022
$6.3M
Training Program in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental BiologyT32GM008111 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI YODER, BRADLEY K. · 1985 to 2022
$5.4M
Training Program in Lung Biology and Translational MedicineT32HL105346 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI GAGGAR, AMIT · 2010 to 2025
$5.0M
Functional Anatomic Imaging of CF Patients with Early Lung Disease Using microOCTR01HL116213 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ROWE, STEVEN MARK, TEARNEY, GUILLERMO J · 2012 to 2015
$2.0M
The Mechanisms Underlying Abnormal Mucus and its Clearance in the Cystic Fibrosis RatK08HL131867 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI BIRKET, SUSAN ELIZABETH · 2017 to 2021
$637k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL131867NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL116213NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL135816NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL105346NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK072482NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mechanisms underlying the development and natural progression of the airway mucus defect in cystic fibrosis (CF) remain largely unclear. New animal models of CF, coupled with imaging using micro-optical coherence tomography, can lead to insights regarding these questions. The Cftr-/- (KO) rat allows for longitudinal examination of the development and progression of airway mucus abnormalities. The KO rat exhibits decreased periciliary depth, hyperacidic pH, and increased mucus solid content percentage; however, the transport rates and viscoelastic properties of the mucus are unaffected until the KO rat ages. Airway submucosal gland hypertrophy develops in the KO rat by 6 months of age. Only then does it induce increased mucus viscosity, collapse of the periciliary layer, and delayed mucociliary transport; stimulation of gland secretion potentiates this evolution. These findings could be reversed by bicarbonate repletion but not pH correction without counterion donation. These studies demonstrate that abnormal surface epithelium in CF does not cause delayed mucus transport in the absence of functional gland secretions. Furthermore, abnormal bicarbonate transport represents a specific target for restoring mucus clearance, independent of effects on periciliary collapse. Thus, mature airway secretions are required to manifest the CF defect primed by airway dehydration and bicarbonate deficiency.

Indexed as

AnimalsBicarbonatesBiological TransportCystic FibrosisCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorDisease Models, AnimalFemaleGene Knockout TechniquesIon TransportMaleMucociliary ClearanceMucusRatsRespiratory MucosaSurface PropertiesBicarbonatesCFTR protein, ratCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorCell BiologyEpithelial transport of ions and waterPulmonology

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PMID29321377
PMCPMC5821204
OpenAlexW2784042418

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