Sentence examples for mucus which has from inspiring English sources

Goblet cells constantly produce mucus, which has a dual role of protecting the mucosa from adhesion of certain microorganisms while providing an initial binding site, nutrient source, and matrix on which commensal bacteria can proliferate [16].

Mucins are major components of mucus which has been shown to regulate lipid trafficking and metabolism in several cell types.

A theme of the video is taken from a description from a ship's surgeon who wrote, "The deck that is the floor of their rooms was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughterhouse".

One 18th century ship observer wrote, "The floor of the rooms was so covered with blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of dysentery that it resembled a slaughter house".

In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, failure of ionic regulation is associated with abnormalities in mucus consistency and secretion, which has deleterious effects in the gut and lungs.

Cervical mucus is a substance which has a few different purposes at different phases of a woman's cycle.

Secretory processes by club cells and mucus cells which have been observed under challenged conditions (Davis and Dickey 2008; Evans et al. 2004; Pack et al. 1980; Reader et al. 2003; Reynolds and Malkinson 2010) may have contributed to the reduction of mCLCA5 on the protein level.

Cervical uterine glands secrete mucus that lubricates the vagina, which has no glands.

Both CF and COPD airways exhibit increased neutrophil elastase (NE) activity, which has the potential to damage the lung and also to cleave and activate ENaC, exacerbating mucus dehydration and further reducing mucociliary clearance [24, 40, 45, 50].

Brailsford claimed at a culture, media and sport select committee hearing into doping that he had been told by the Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman that the mysterious Jiffy bag, which has been at the centre of a long-running UK Anti-Doping investigation, contained the mucus-clearing drug Fluimucil – and that a paper trail would back him up.

It produces greenish luminescent mucus which may have an anti-predator function.