Sentences with phrase «upper airway cells»

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The unaltered hemagglutinin is akin to a key that unlocks a so - called receptor molecule in cells lining the upper airways of humans and other mammals.

Now, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reveal that the release of AMPs is partially controlled by bitter taste receptors in the upper airway on a cell previously identified in animals and only recently in humans known as solitary chemosensory cells (SCCs).

The artificial system is used to observe the effects of air pollutants on cells in the upper airway.

Human nasal epithelial cells, cultured on a microchip, react to air pollutants just like they would in the upper airway.

So even if a virus were exhaled, it would need to lodge onto something in another person's cells that are already prepared for it in the upper airway.

Researchers also found more killer T cells — which help patients fight the infection — in the upper airways of flu patients with the protective variant compared to other patients.

The Memphis flu patients also had fewer of the killer T cells in their upper airways.

Once the aerosolized organisms are inhaled, they adhere to the lining of your dog's upper airway passages to fester and affect the cells of those lining tissues, prompting your dog to cough.

Ciliary dyskinesis - This is a syndrome which has been reported in the Chinese Shar - Pei in which the cilia (microscopic hair - like projections on the epithelial cells which line the upper airways) are malformed or nonexistent.