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- Title
Airway permeability.
- Authors
Persson, C. G. A.; Andersson, M.; Greiff, L.; Svensson, C.; Erjefält, J. S.; Sundler, F.; Wollmer, P.; Alkner, U.; Erjefält, I.; Gustafsson, B.; Linden, M.; Nilsson, M.
- Abstract
The article informs that the upper airway mucosa is a main site for deposition of potentially noxious environmental molecules. As one might expect this mucosa is also well equipped to protect both itself and the rest of the body from harmful influences of foreign material. The regulation of the permeability of nasal and tracheobronchial mucosa is such that blood plasma may enter the airway lumen without making it any easier for foreign surface molecules to penetrate into the airway tissue. Thus, circulating humoral defence systems would be allowed to neutralize offending stimuli on the surface of a mucosa that maintains its absorption barrier uncompromised.
- Subjects
BLOOD plasma; MOLECULES; BLOOD; ABSORPTION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 1995, Vol 25, Issue 9, p807
- ISSN
0954-7894
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2222.1995.tb00022.x