Airway hillock

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Preferred term label:

airway hillock

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Definition (free text, please give PubMed ID)

A region of squamous epithelium found in the tracheobronchial tree - continuous with the tracheobronchial epithelium -

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07377-1

Parent term (use https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/uberon)

squamous epithelium

part_of tracheobronchial tree

has_part some respiratory hillock cell

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** NOTES **

• THis paper emphasises that hillocks consist of both barrier cells on the surface and a stem cell population that they protect, but we only have a single type of hillock cell in CL.