Biorheological matching: Mucociliary interaction and epithelial clearance
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Biorheology
- Vol. 20 (2) , 215-222
- https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1983-20211
Abstract
In mucociliary clearance mucus has been found to be essential as coupler between ciliary beat and transport. The rheological properties of mucus are carefully matched to this task. It has to be an incipient gel and deviations from this state, to a soKeywords
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