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mucociliary clearance

The respiratory system process driven by motile cilia on epithelial cells of the respiratory tract by which mucus and associated inhaled particles and pathogens trapped within it are moved out of the airways
Class type of: respiratory system process, epithelial cilium movement involved in extracellular fluid movement Q63771488

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2 properties
Instance of
biological process
Subclass of
respiratory system process, epithelial cilium movement involved in extracellular fluid movement[2][3]
🏷️ Also known as
en GO:0120197 en mucociliary transport en mucociliary clearance ar إزالة الغشاء المخاطي الهدبي de mukoziliärer Transport de mukoziliäre Clearance de mucociliar Clearance fa پاک‌سازی مخاطی‌مژه‌ای fr système muco-ciliaire ja 粘膜毛様体クリアランス ja 粘膜繊毛クリアランス ru Мукоцилиарная система ru Мукоцилиарный клиренс ru Мукоцилиарный транспорт ru МЦК zh-hans 粘膜纖毛清除 zh-hant 黏膜纖毛清除
🔖 Identifiers · 11
OpenAlex ID
C114682108
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/mucociliary-escalator
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/04184m4
Gene Ontology ID
GO:0120197
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1217cmnz
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
mucociliary-clearance
MeSH descriptor ID
D009079
MeSH tree code
E01.370.386.520, G09.772.555
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
114682108
UMLS CUI
C0026687

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biological process
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Summary

mucociliary clearance is a biological process[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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