What is Cystic Fibrosis?

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Science

 

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Rudolph L

 

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September 20, 2011

 

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University

 

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This particular gene is responsible for the building of the protein called the cystic fibrosis trans membrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Normally, the gene regulates the passage of chloride ions in and out of the cell, but when mutated as in the case of CF patients the chloride ions cannot move throughout the cell membrane because the CFTR does not open...
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In about three- quarter of CF cases the CFTR is not just broken, but is completely missing from the cell. The missing CFTR has many effects on the human body. One is saltier sweat because as the sweat rises to the skin, cells reabsorb sodium and chloride molecules. The loss of the CFTR does not allow the body to reabsorb the sodium ions making a CF patient's sweat five times saltier than that of a normal person...
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