Objectives/Hypothesis Despite surgical advances, childhood tracheal stenosis is associated
with high morbidity and mortality. Various tracheal scaffold strategies have been developed …

Ciliary motion defects cause defective mucociliary transport (MCT) in primary ciliary
dyskinesia (PCD). Current diagnostic tests do not assess how MCT is affected by …

Objectives: Current surgical treatment for a glottic cancer with significant subglottic extension
is a total laryngectomy. The objective of this study was to expand laryngeal conservation …

Background Planar cell polarity (PCP) coordinates the patterning and orientation of cells
and their structures along tissue planes, and although its acquisition during the formation of …

The uterine tube is an essential conduit for the gametes and zygote during reproduction. The
necessary bidirectional conveyance occurs through peristalsis and ciliary activity, but unlike …

Objective To evaluate the use of tracheal autotransplantation for reconstruction of the
hemilaryngectomy defect that includes the hemicricoid cartilage and results from resection of …

Objective To investigate the prefabrication of vascularized mucosa-lined composite grafts
intended to replace circumferential tracheal defects. Design Plane grafts composed of ear …

The capacity of tracheal allotransplants in providing optimal tissues for laryngotracheal
repair was studied in an animal model. Segments of cervical trachea could be …

Tissue‐engineered tracheae have been developed to replace defective tracheae. However,
the direction of ciliated cells in the regenerated epithelium remains unclear. We investigated …

Normal mucociliary transport in the mucoperichondrium of the nasal septum is from a distal
(anterior) to proximal (posterior) direction. This study was to determine the direction of …