Oyster Ciliary Inhibition by Cystic Fibrosis Factor
Abstract
Ciliary inhibition in oysters serves as an assay in identifying a serum factor in cystic fibrosis patients and heterozygotes. Serums from 47 patients with cystic fibrosis and 19 heterozygotes caused ciliary cessation within 35 minutes, whereas serums from only 2 of 64 individuals without cystic fibrosis inhibited ciliary activity within this time.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- April 1969
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.164.3877.325
- Bibcode:
- 1969Sci...164..325B