 Mucus
"Mucus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The viscous secretion of mucous membranes. It contains mucin, white blood cells, water, inorganic salts, and exfoliated cells.
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D009093
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A12.200.503
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mucus" by people in Profiles.
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Ye Q, Opoku G, Orlov M, Jaramillo AM, Holguin F, Vladar EK, Janssen WJ, Evans CM. Mucins and Their Roles in Asthma. Immunol Rev. 2025 May; 331(1):e70034.
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Hara N, Raclawska DS, Morgan LE, NeeDell JC, Dao L, Kato A, Jaramillo AM, Hume PS, Holguin F, Janssen WJ, Vladar EK, Evans CM. Requirement for Fucosyltransferase 2 in Allergic Airway Hyperreactivity and Mucus Obstruction. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2025 Apr; 72(4):408-417.
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van der Veer T, Andrinopoulou ER, Braunstahl GJ, Charbonnier JP, Kim V, Latisenko R, Lynch DA, Tiddens H. Association between automatic AI-based quantification of airway-occlusive mucus plugs and all-cause mortality in patients with COPD. Thorax. 2025 Jan 17; 80(2):105-108.
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Everman JL, Sajuthi SP, Liegeois MA, Jackson ND, Collet EH, Peters MC, Chioccioli M, Moore CM, Patel BB, Dyjack N, Powell R, Rios C, Montgomery MT, Eng C, Elhawary JR, Mak ACY, Hu D, Huntsman S, Salazar S, Feriani L, Fairbanks-Mahnke A, Zinnen GL, Michel CR, Gomez J, Zhang X, Medina V, Chu HW, Cicuta P, Gordon ED, Zeitlin P, Ortega VE, Reisdorph N, Dunican EM, Tang M, Elicker BM, Henry TS, Bleecker ER, Castro M, Erzurum SC, Israel E, Levy BD, Mauger DT, Meyers DA, Sumino K, Gierada DS, Hastie AT, Moore WC, Denlinger LC, Jarjour NN, Schiebler ML, Wenzel SE, Woodruff PG, Rodriguez-Santana J, Pearson CG, Burchard EG, Fahy JV, Seibold MA. A common polymorphism in the Intelectin-1 gene influences mucus plugging in severe asthma. Nat Commun. 2024 May 09; 15(1):3900.
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Jaramillo AM, Vladar EK, Holguin F, Dickey BF, Evans CM. Emerging cell and molecular targets for treating mucus hypersecretion in asthma. Allergol Int. 2024 Jul; 73(3):375-381.
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Olm MR, Mueller NT. Milk to mucus: How B.?fragilis colonizes the gut. Cell Host Microbe. 2024 Feb 14; 32(2):149-150.
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Diaz AA, Orejas JL, Grumley S, Nath HP, Wang W, Dolliver WR, Yen A, Kligerman SJ, Jacobs K, Manapragada PP, Abozeed M, Aziz MU, Zahid M, Ahmed AN, Terry NL, San Jos? Est?par R, Kim V, Make BJ, Han MK, Sonavane S, Washko GR, Cho M, San Jos? Est?par R. Airway-Occluding Mucus Plugs and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. JAMA. 2023 06 06; 329(21):1832-1839.
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Singanayagam A, Footitt J, Marczynski M, Radicioni G, Cross MT, Finney LJ, Trujillo-Torralbo MB, Calderazzo M, Zhu J, Aniscenko J, Clarke TB, Molyneaux PL, Bartlett NW, Moffatt MF, Cookson WO, Wedzicha J, Evans CM, Boucher RC, Kesimer M, Lieleg O, Mallia P, Johnston SL. Airway mucins promote immunopathology in virus-exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Clin Invest. 2022 04 15; 132(8).
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Sajuthi SP, Everman JL, Jackson ND, Saef B, Rios CL, Moore CM, Mak ACY, Eng C, Fairbanks-Mahnke A, Salazar S, Elhawary J, Huntsman S, Medina V, Nickerson DA, Germer S, Zody MC, Abecasis G, Kang HM, Rice KM, Kumar R, Zaitlen NA, Oh S, Rodr?guez-Santana J, Burchard EG, Seibold MA. Nasal airway transcriptome-wide association study of asthma reveals genetically driven mucus pathobiology. Nat Commun. 2022 03 28; 13(1):1632.
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McShane A, Bath J, Jaramillo AM, Ridley C, Walsh AA, Evans CM, Thornton DJ, Ribbeck K. Mucus. Curr Biol. 2021 08 09; 31(15):R938-R945.
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