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ArticleThorax1997

Airway epithelial repair: breathtakingly quick and multipotentially pathogenic.

J S Erjefält, C G Persson

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Article in Thorax, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Neuropeptides SP and CGRP Diminish theMediators of inflammation · 2018
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  7. Pathogenesis and disease mechanisms of occupational asthma.Immunology and allergy clinics of North America · 2011
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  8. Cigarette smoke suppresses Bik to cause epithelial cell hyperplasia and mucous cell metaplasia.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2011
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  11. Airway epithelial cells: current concepts and challenges.Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society · 2008
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  14. Regulation of airway mucin gene expression.Annual review of physiology · 2008
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

J S ErjefältDepartment of Physiology and Neuroscience, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
C G Persson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epithelial shedding, even to the point of airway denudation, had already been described as a common and unifying feature of asthma by the latter half of the 19th century. However, the repair processes that specifically follow the shedding-like loss of epithelial cells have only recently been examined in vivo. This paper discusses the exceedingly fast epithelial restitution and the potential pathogenic sequelae to epithelial shedding alone that have been unravelled. Epithelial cytoprotection emerges as an important property of future therapeutic drugs for the treatment of airways inflammatory conditions.

Indexed as

AnimalsAsthmaCell DifferentiationCell MovementEpitheliumGuinea PigsHistocytochemistryHumansLungLung DiseasesTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID9487352
PMCPMC1758444

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