Cystic Fibrosis Pigs Get Lung Disease (IMAGE)

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Cystic Fibrosis Pigs Get Lung Disease

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These airways, obtained during a lung transplantation performed on a 15-year-old CF patient, show two kinds of mucus obstructions observed in the removed CF lungs: a more common form of purulent, ivory, semi-liquid mucus (front), and a less common form of translucent, resilient, elastic mucus, shown here being stretched and pulled from a bronchus. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 28, 2010, issue of Science Translational Medicine. The Perspective, by Dr. Jeffrey J. Wine at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., was titled, "The Development of Lung Disease in Cystic Fibrosis Pigs."

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Image courtesy of J.J. Wine, CF Research Laboratory, Stanford University

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