How does cystic fibrosis affect your cells?!


Question: How does cystic fibrosis affect your cells!?
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Cystic fibrosis is a disease that occurs when your genes do not properly code for a transmembrane chemical transporter that allows the movement of chloride out of a cell (or in the sweat glands, from the gland into the cell cytoplasm)!. This is why, for example, 95% of people with CF suffer suppurative lung disease with very thick mucus; the chloride ions cannot move out of their lung cells into the alveoli, therefore water does not follow it out, therefore the mucus is very thick and dehydrated!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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