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COPD lungs show an attached stratified mucus layer resembling the protective colonic mucus
Joan Antoni Fernández-Blanco, Liisa Arike, Anna Ermund…·Gunnar C. Hansson
The paper compares mucus composition and structure in COPD, CF, and colonic mucus, finding similarities in proteomes and a protective attached mucus layer in the lungs.