A mucous membrane, similar to those in the nasal cavity, lines the interior of the trachea. Cells in this membrane, called goblet cells, release mucus to help prevent microorganisms and debris ...

Neuroendocrine cells in the larynx and trachea, which make up the passageway from the mouth to the lungs, can sense water and acid passing through, a team reports in the April 19 Science.

The surgery marks the first time a trachea grown from a patient’s stem cells and seeded onto a synthetic, rather than a donor, structure has been transplanted in a human. And it saved a 36-year ...

The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilizing the patient's own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The first tissue-engineered ...

Trachea cancer patient receives new trachea grown from own stem cells. Jan. 13, 2012— -- Christopher Lyles, 30, of Abingdon, Md, exhausted the limited treatment options available in the U.S ...

cartilage rings in the walls of the trachea help to keep it open ciliated epithelium and goblet cells to clean the air before it reaches the lungs Goblet cells produce mucus which traps dust ...

Hannah Warren was born without a trachea, so doctors made one with stem cells. April 30, 2013— -- In a groundbreaking feat of science and surgery, a Korean toddler born without a windpipe ...

A 2-year-old girl who was the first child to receive a windpipe grown from her own stem cells died this past weekend ... "Following her successful, pioneering trachea transplant surgery on ...

Using Lyles' bone marrow stem cells the doctors were able to regenerate tissue to create a trachea biologically identical to his own windpipe. After surgery, Lyles contracted pneumonia ...

A Colombian woman has received the world's first tailor-made transplanted trachea, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international ...