Is stripping your membranes the same as losing your mucus plug?
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174 Citations | Mucus reconstituted by concentration of the purified glycoprotein (pig gastric and duodenal mucus) had the same viscoelastic properties as the fresh mucus, giving evidence that the glycoprotein alone will reproduce the rheologic characteristics of the mucus. |
26 Citations | Stripping of the fetal membranes is a safe and efficacious procedure for induction of labor. |
91 Citations | These findings indicate that epithelial antimicrobial peptides are retained in the intestinal mucus layer without losing their efficacy. |
| This mucus plug can cause collapse of the lung and ill consequences. | |
| Mucus plugs are a plausible mechanism of chronic airflow obstruction in severe asthma, and EPO-generated oxidants may mediate mucus plug formation. | |
19 Citations | Mucus secretions of the intestine may contribute to plug formation in CF, through several mechanisms acting alone or simultaneously. |
01 Jan 1997 | Pervaporation and stripping on micro-porous membranes is comparable in operating cost to air-stripping. |
3 Citations | [2] Its use in clearing the airway because of mucus plug is considered as a standard practice particularly in patients where physiotherapy has failed to do so. |
17 Citations | These, and other comparisons shown, indicate that Pa would be less effective in such environments, as would be the case in a CF mucus plug. |
30 Citations | Fluid dynamics of mucus plug rupture is important to understand mucus clearance in lung airways and potential effects of mucus plug rupture on epithelial cells at lung airway walls. |
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