Mucins (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

Mucins

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This mucus web, secreted by human lung tissue for protection, consists of large spaghetti-like mucin threads and thousands of other proteins. Measuring mucins has diagnostic and prognostic value.

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(Courtesy of Jerome Carpenter/ Mehmet Kesimer, UNC School of Medicine)

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