Sistic Fibrosis - The Connection Between Salt and Sickness

In 19 87, jinny hughes brought her two year old daughter, mallory, to doctor celia oras who'd been a mente of dorothy anderson's all she did was kiss my baby, and she knew she could taste it on her lips. And that suggested to Dorothy anderson that there was something in this. Now know that sistic fibrosis is caused by a mutation in a gean. This specific gean codes for something called a chloride channel. Chloride channels are gate keepers that sit in the cell membrane and usher chloride and electrolyte in and out of cells.