Pharmacological Improvement of CFTR Function Rescues Airway Epithelial Homeostasis and Host Defense in Children with Cystic Fibrosis.
Jennifer LoskeMirjam VöllerSören LukassenMirjam StahlLoreen ThürmannAnke SeegebarthJobst RöhmelSebastian WisniewskiMarey MessingschlagerStephan LorenzSven KlagesRoland EilsIrina LehmannMarcus Alexander MallSimon Y GraeberSaskia TrumpPublished in: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2024)
Pharmacological improvement of CFTR function improves innate mucosal immunity and reduces immune cell inflammatory responses in the upper airways of children with CF at the single cell level, highlighting the potential to restore epithelial homeostasis and host defense in CF airways by early initiation of ETI therapy. This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).