How does cystic fibrosis affect your cells?!
Question: How does cystic fibrosis affect your cells.?
Answers:
Cystic fibrosis is a disease that occurs when your genes do not properly code for a transmembrane chemical transporter that allows the movement of chloride out of a cell (or in the sweat glands, from the gland into the cell cytoplasm). This is why, for example, 95% of people with CF suffer suppurative lung disease with very thick mucus; the chloride ions cannot move out of their lung cells into the alveoli, therefore water does not follow it out, therefore the mucus is very thick and dehydrated.Health Question & Answer