An integrated mathematical epithelial cell model for airway surface liquid regulation by mechanical forces

D Wu, RC Boucher, B Button, T Elston, CL Lin - Journal of theoretical …, 2018 - Elsevier
… for both normal (NL) and cystic fibrosis (CF) airway epithelia … ) metabolism model and a fluid
transport model (collectively … release: cyclic shear stress, cyclic compressive stress, and cilial …

Mathematical model reveals role of nucleotide signaling in airway surface liquid homeostasis and its dysregulation in cystic fibrosis

CI Sandefur, RC Boucher… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… model of airway surface liquid regulation in normal and CF … is phasic motion during tidal
breathing that imposes stresses … 3 h of CCS-mediated shear stress by increasing the rate of ATP …

Slippery when wet: airway surface liquid homeostasis and mucus hydration

MJ Webster, R Tarran - Current topics in membranes, 2018 - Elsevier
… several diseases including cystic fibrosis. With regard to the … With regard to fluid volume
regulation, we discuss the roles of … In addition to phasic shear stress mediated release of ATP, it …

Reflection confocal microscopy for the study of airway surface liquid dysregulation in cystic fibrosis

A Seyhan Agircan - 2019 - archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Measurements of airway surface liquid (ASL) on primary airway epithelial cultures (AECs)
grown at air-liquid interface (ALI) identified ASL depletion as a characteristic abnormality in …

A physiologically-motivated model of cystic fibrosis liquid and solute transport dynamics across primary human nasal epithelia

F Serrano Castillo, CA Bertrand, MM Myerburg… - … of Pharmacokinetics and …, 2019 - Springer
… of airway surface liquid mucostasis, chronic inflammation, and eventual respiratory failure. …
are the main determinants of ASL and cellular volume regulation [7, 11]. In CF, deficient or …

Inhibition of ATP hydrolysis restores airway surface liquid production in cystic fibrosis airway epithelia

C van Heusden, B Button… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
… Therefore, the effect of POM-5 on ASL volume regulation was investigated in CF HBEC.
Cells were incubated overnight under oscillatory shear stress that mimics the phasic motion of …

Physiology and pathophysiology of human airway mucus

DB Hill, B Button, M Rubinstein… - Physiological …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Airway surface liquid volume regulation. A: diagram of … and 2) shear on airway surfaces due
to phasic airflow (FIGURE 6Ci). … The concentration-dependent shear stress characteristics of …

Emerging concepts and therapies for mucoobstructive lung disease

MA Mall, H Danahay, RC Boucher - Annals of the American …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
… the failure to properly regulate mucus concentration, producing … secretion; 3) confocal airway
surface liquid (ASL) height … materials in normal versus cystic fibrosis airway epithelia. Am J …

The role of microRNA in the airway surface liquid homeostasis

N Mitash, JE Donovan, A Swiatecka-Urban - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The volume of the periciliary layer and mucus hydration is regulated by the transcellular and
… results from mutations in the CFTR gene and leads to cystic fibrosis (CF). More than 90% of …

Mucus hyperconcentration as a unifying aspect of the chronic bronchitic phenotype

B Button, WH Anderson, RC Boucher - Annals of the American …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
… This situation is achieved in cystic fibrosis (CF) by virtue of … pathways, produced airway surface
liquid volume hyperabsorption in the … This abnormality is complemented by the regulatory