Research Article
Phenotypic Analysis of BrdU Label-Retaining Cells during the Maturation of Conducting Airway Epithelium in a Porcine Lung
Table 3
Mean percentage of lineage-labeled Mucin 5AC-positive
in different regions of porcine conducting airway over a time period of 90 days (%).
| Time | Proximal trachea | Middle trachea | Distal trachea | Bronchus | Bronchiole |
| 0 day | 1.80 ± 0.48 | 3.42 ± 0.44 | 1.06 ± 0.16 | 0.63 ± 0.03 | 1.55 ± 0.15 | 30 days | 2.27 ± 0.44 | 1.20 ± 0.18 | 0.61 ± 0.05 | 1.32 ± 0.25 | 0.61 ± 0.08 | 60 days | 1.04 ± 0.16 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 90 days | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.03 ± 0.02 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 |
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