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Nature Medicine  3, 494 - 495 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-494

A sensitive defense: Salt and cystic fibrosis

Jeffrey J. Wine

Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory, Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-2130, USA

New evidence implicates salt-sensitive, natural antibiotics in lung mucosal defenses and may explain how a defective chloride channel leads to lung infections.

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