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RESPIROLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 569-578Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12521
Keywords
biochemistry; cell biology; cystic fibrosis; paediatric lung disease; infection and inflammation
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Individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) suffer progressive airway inflammation, infection and lung damage. Airway inflammation and infection are present from early in life, often before children are symptomatic. CF gene mutations cause changes in the CF transmembrane regulator protein that result in an aberrant airway microenvironment including airway surface liquid (ASL) dehydration, reduced ASL acidity, altered airway mucin and a dysregulated inflammatory response. This review discusses how an altered microenvironment drives CF lung disease before overt airway infection, the response of the CF airway to early infection, and methods to prevent inflammation and early lung disease.
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