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Nanoparticles in the treatment of chronic lung diseases [PDF]

, 2019
Nanoparticles, although considered a topic of modern medicine, actually have an interesting history. Currently, advances in nanomedicine hold great promise as drug carrier systems for sustained release and targeted delivery of diverse therapeutic agents.
Alexescu, Teodora G, Cosnarovici, Maria, Negrean, Vasile, Orasan, Olga H, Para, Ioana, Perne, Mirela G, Popovici, Ionela, Ruta, Victoria M, Tarmure, Simina, Todea, Doina A   +9 more
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Effect of hypertonic saline on mucociliary clearance and clinical outcomes in chronic bronchitis

ERJ Open Research, 2020
Background Mucus dehydration and impaired mucus clearance are common features of cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
W. Bennett, A. Henderson, A. Ceppe, K. Zeman, Jihong Wu, Christine Gladman, Fred Fuller, S. Gazda, B. Button, R. Boucher, S. Donaldson   +10 more
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Inhaled Insulin: Intrapulmonary or Intranasal? [PDF]

, 2012
Initial attempts delivered the insulin hormone intramuscularly, intravenously, and eventually subcutaneously. Other routes of administration of the drug were explored.
Danish Ahmed, Shivangi Jaiswal, Shruti Mishra, Sweta Kumari   +3 more
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Resistance exercise training improves mucociliary clearance in subjects with COPD: A randomized clinical trial

Pulmonology, 2019
Introduction: Elastic tubing was recently investigated as an alternative to the conventional resistance training (RT) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
B.S.A. Silva, D. Ramos, G.N. Bertolini, A.P.C.F. Freire, M.R. Leite, C.A. Camillo, L.A. Gobbo, E.M.C. Ramos   +7 more
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The effects on mucociliary clearance of prednisone associated with bronchial section

Clinics, 2012
OBJECTIVE: Infections have been and remain the major cause of morbidity and mortality after lung transplantation. Because mucociliary clearance plays an important role in human defense mechanisms, the influence of drugs on the mucociliary epithelium of ...
Karina Andrighetti de Oliveira Braga, Natalia Aparecida Nepomuceno, Aristides Tadeu Correia, Fabio Biscegli Jatene, Paulo Manuel Pêgo-Fernandes   +4 more
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In vivo therapeutic efficacy of frog skin-derived peptides against Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced pulmonary infection [PDF]

, 2017
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic and frequently drug-resistant pulmonary pathogen especially in cystic fibrosis sufferers. Recently, the frog skin-derived antimicrobial peptide (AMP) Esc(1-21) and its diastereomer Esc(1-21)-1c were found to ...
Chen, Chen, Di, Y. Peter, Mangoni, Maria Luisa   +2 more
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THE STATE OF BRONCHIAL CILIATED EPITHELIUM AND MUCOCILIARY TRANSPORT IN CASE OF CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND CONCURRENT LONG TERM SMOKING

Туберкулез и болезни лёгких, 2019
The objective of the study: to compare the state of mucociliary clearance and bronchial ciliated epithelium in smokers and non-smokers suffering from chronic bronchitis.Subjects and methods. 80 chronic bronchitis patients with exacerbation were examined;
N. E. Chernekhovskaya, N. Yu. Vyrenkova, I. M. Maltseva, A. V. Volova, A. V. Povalyaev, N. V. Vychuzhanina   +5 more
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Nasal histamine responses in nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilic syndrome [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Nonallergic rhinitis with eosinophilic syndrome (NARES) is persistent, without atopy, but with ≥25% nasal eosinophilia. Hypereosinophilia seems to contribute to nasal mucosa dysfunction.
Ciofalo, Andrea, de Vincentiis, Marco, Fusconi, Massimo, Greco, Antonio, Magliulo, Giuseppe, Romeo, Raffaello, Soldo, Pietro, Zambetti, Giampietro   +7 more
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ALLERGIC RHINITIS: STEROIDS, ANTIHISTAMINES AND MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE

Journal of University Medical & Dental College, 2020
Introduction: Allergic rhinitis is very common disease. The efficacy of topical steroid/oral H-1 antihistamine or combined therapy in allergic rhinitis is controversial.
Salahuddin Ayubi
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Sputum and mucociliary clearance mechanisms [PDF]

Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1976
Summary Bronchial secretion forms a periciliary liquid layer and may also give rise to thicker secretion that moves on the tips of the cilia. This latter material as collected at bronchoscopy or coughed up as sputum is a viscoelastic substance behaving in a characteristic way over a wide range of shear rates.
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