A variety of cell culture systems for modelling the respiratory epithelium have been developed and are available to the scientific community. However, to allow their full exploitation in biopharmaceutical research, the currently available models have to be further characterised, particularly regarding their expression of transporter molecules and their metabolic capabilities.
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