Pulmonary drug delivery: from generating aerosols to overcoming biological barriers—therapeutic possibilities and technological challenges

CA Ruge, J Kirch, CM Lehr - The lancet Respiratory medicine, 2013 - thelancet.com
Research in pulmonary drug delivery has focused mainly on new particle or device
technologies to improve the aerosol generation and pulmonary deposition of inhaled drugs …

Microscale imaging of cilia-driven fluid flow

BK Huang, MA Choma - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2015 - Springer
Cilia-driven fluid flow is important for multiple processes in the body, including respiratory
mucus clearance, gamete transport in the oviduct, right–left patterning in the embryonic …

Entrainment of mammalian motile cilia in the brain with hydrodynamic forces

N Pellicciotta, E Hamilton, J Kotar, M Faucourt… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Motile cilia are widespread across the animal and plant kingdoms, displaying complex
collective dynamics central to their physiology. Their coordination mechanism is not …

ciliaFA: a research tool for automated, high-throughput measurement of ciliary beat frequency using freely available software

CM Smith, J Djakow, RC Free, P Djakow, R Lonnen… - Cilia, 2012 - Springer
Background Analysis of ciliary function for assessment of patients suspected of primary
ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and for research studies of respiratory and ependymal cilia requires …

Assessing the collective dynamics of motile cilia in cultures of human airway cells by multiscale DDM

L Feriani, M Juenet, CJ Fowler, N Bruot, M Chioccioli… - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
The technique of differential dynamic microscopy is extended here, showing that it can
provide a powerful and objective method of video analysis for optical microscopy videos of …

A novel exposure system for the efficient and controlled deposition of aerosol particles onto cell cultures

M Savi, M Kalberer, D Lang, M Ryser… - Environmental …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Epidemiologic studies have shown correlations between morbidity and particles≤ 2.5 μm
generated from pollution processes and manufactured nanoparticles. Thereby nanoparticles …

In vivo volumetric depth-resolved imaging of cilia metachronal waves using dynamic optical coherence tomography

T ** ciliary dynamics and coordination in response to CFTR-modulators in Cystic Fibrosis respiratory epithelial cells
M Chioccioli, L Feriani, J Kotar, PE Bratcher… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Personalized approaches for systematically assessing ciliary beat dynamics and for drug
testing would improve the challenging task of diagnosing and treating respiratory disorders …