Mucus clearance as a primary innate defense mechanism for mammalian airways
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
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- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in Journal of Clinical Investigation
- Vol. 109 (5) , 571-577
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci15217
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