Conclusion We conclude that the epithelial innate immune barrier follows a specific pattern per GI segment. The majority of the expression patterns and the function of TLR4 is encoded in the ...

The epithelial–mesenchymal transition is the process by which polarised epithelial cells that are connected via adhesion lose their characteristics and acquire migratory and invasive properties ...

because the remaining Dsg3 can completely maintain cell–cell adhesion of the mucosal epithelium. In mucosal-dominant type of pemphigus vulgaris, epidermal damage is relatively weak because of ...

The mucosal surfaces are lined by epithelial cells, establishing a barrier between the external environment and internal milieu. There are many strategies to follow in order to cross the mucus ...

However, an in vitro model is required to be able to test these mucosal vaccines. Aim To set up an in vitro influenza mucosal vaccination model using human nasal epithelium and peripheral blood ...

Department of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Hartmannstrasse 14, 91 054 Erlangen, Germany; christoph.becker{at}uk-erlangen.de Intestinal epithelial cells (IEC) are organised as a single ...

uses to traverse the inner and outer layers of skin and emerge onto the skin's surface. The study identifies new cell types within the skin ...

Center for Cell Structure and Function, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resistance Biology, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China ...

Shape changes of epithelia during animal development, such as convergent extension, are achieved through concerted mechanical activity of individual cells. While much is known about the corresponding ...

healthy skin was the involvement of multiple types of immune cells as sender cells. While both healthy and diseased skin involved DCs, Endothelial cells, Epithelial cells, and Fibroblasts as sender ...

To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, scientists sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called 'organoids' to the International Space Station. Microgravity is known to ...