Effects of Particles as an Osmotic Load

Particles may also disturb the osmotic balance, thereby altering the mucus, and indirectly or directly enhancing or depressing clearance. This possibility is illus- 

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Glycoprotein subunits are linked primarily by intramolecular S-S bonds. 

Mucin macromolecules have both positive and negative fixed charges, which are capable of interacting. 

Each of these types of bonds is subject to mocolysis. 

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