Understanding chronic inflammatory diseases in the human lung: the cystic fibrosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis paradigms
The chronic infection of the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung with Pseudomonas aeruginosa strongly correlates with critical outcomes. Pseudomonas alkyl-quinolone signal (PQS) is a diffusible cell-density dependent signal controlling the production of virulence determinants. The PQS amount in the CF lung wa...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27807/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27807/1/LiuYC_thesis_final.pdf |