Cadmium toxicity in a bronchial co-culture model
C Pohl, I Hermanns, M Bock, K Kehe, C Kirkpatrick · Pneumologie · 2008 · Heft 04
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Cadmium is an industrial and environmental pollutant which can damage depending on the dose and route of exposure various organs including the lung. After an explant-outgrowth culture of epithelial cells from small bronchi pure populations of primary isolated normal human bronchial epithelial cells (NHBE) were cultured with lung fibroblasts as bilayer on a 24-well HTS-Transwell filter plate. The cells were grown on a collagen type I and maintained at an air-liquid interface (ALI) by feeding basolaterally with medium. Barrier properties and morphological phenotype were compared over 31 days. The NHBE formed confl…