Regulators of airway submucosal glands development and functions

Tracheobronchial submucosal glands (SMGs) develop from clusters of epithelial progenitor cells basally orientated within the surface airway epithelium called primordial glandular placodes (PGPs). Signal transduction events that coordinate the transitional process from PGPs into fully developed SMGs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xie, Weiliang
Other Authors: Engelhardt, John F.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2012
Subjects:
Wnt
Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3409
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3354&context=etd