Resumen de Mucus Hypersecretion, MUC genes and Mucins in Inflammatory Nasosinusal Diseases. Regulation by Proinflammatory and Antiinflammatory Agents

Asunción Martínez Antón

• The overall objectives of this thesis are: one, characterize the expression of mucin at baseline human nasal mucosa in healthy and inflamed (nasal polyps), and two, to analyze the expression of mucin and the regulation exerted by glucocorticoids on it in patients with nasal polyposis ( "in vivo") and a respiratory cell line (in vitro).