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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Physiol. 2009;71:425–449. doi: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.010908.163253

Table 2.

Tissue distribution of hCLCA gene expression. Levels of expression were determined by detection of mRNA species for the corresponding hCLCA gene.

Gene Tissue Reference
hCLCA1 Intestinal goblet cells and basal crypt epithelial cells (34)
airway mucous cells (58)
Uterus, stomach, testis, kidney, fetal spleen (129)
Brain (138)
hCLCA2 Trachea, breast (47)
Trachea, uterus, prostate, testis, kidney (129)
Conjunctival and corneal epithelium (139)
Nasal epithelium (140)
Cornea, skin, vagina, esophagus, larynx (141, 142)
hCLCA3 Lung, trachea, breast, spleen, thymus (38)
hCLCA4 Brain, colon, bladder, uterus, prostate, stomach, testis, salivary gland, breast, small intestine, appendix, trachea (129)
Nasal epithelium (140)