[The mechanisms of the development of respiratory tract ciliary dysfunction in nonspecific lung diseases]

An original TV system was employed to evaluate ciliary function of the respiratory epithelium in patients with acute pneumonia, acute bronchitis, prebronchitis, chronic bronchitis. Criteria for identification of early ciliary dysfunction have been developed. The effects on ciliary movements of eicosanoids, platelet-activating factor, protease, biogenic amines and mechanisms underlying ciliary dysfunction in nonspecific pulmonary diseases are considered.