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Besides the viscoelastic properties of bronchial mucus, other rheological characteristics such as spinability may interfere in the mucociliary transport process. Although this rheological property has been widely investigated on the cervical mucus, no study has been devoted to the spinability of bronchial mucus and to its role in mucociliary transport.
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Puchelle, E., Zahm, J.M., Petit, A. (1982). Spinability and transport properties of sputum in chronic bronchitis. In: Chantler, E.N., Elder, J.B., Elstein, M. (eds) Mucus in Health and Disease—II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 144. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9254-9_61
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