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Bronchial basal cell and epithelial repair
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Understanding the mechanisms of epithelial repair provides important insights into airway diseases such as asthma and COPD. The airway epithelial structure differs between the larger conducting airways and bronchioles in which, characteristically, basal cells are absent. In the distal airway Clara cells are absolutely necessary for epithelial repair but this is …