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line the cavities and surfaces of structures throughout the body, and also form many glands. Functions of epithelial cells include secretion, selective absorption, protection, transcellular transport and detection of sensation. In Greek...

contraction (FIG. 1a) to reduce their overall size and drive the compaction of clots. Fibroblasts, epithelial cells and endothelial cells establish a front–back polarity and generate anisotropic stresses (FIG. 1b) on the surrounding...

HNE (HNE adducts) levels were found to be significantly elevated by at least 50% in airway and alveolar epithelial cells, endothelial cells and neutrophils in patients with COPD compared with healthy controls25; and the urinary level of...

is the choroid plexus, the structure that generates most of the cerebrospinal fluid. The specialized ependymal epithelial cells of the choroid plexus surround its fenestrated capillaries and filter the fluid that enters through fenestrae...

The gastrointestinal tract is protected from adverse substances in the gut environment by a single layer of epithelial cells that are known to have great regenerative ability in response to injuries and normal cell turnover.23 These...

cytokine, is present in a lot of tissues throughout the human body, and can be secreted by parenchymal cells, epithelial cells, fibroblasts and by influxing immune cells [72]. The TGF-β1 signaling pathway is believed to have a central...

and adaptive immunity), and determining a transcriptional upregulation of cathelicidin also in the airway epithelial cells. Finally, 1,25(OH)2D inhibits the expression of several metalloproteinases in airway smooth-muscle cells and...

G, Makrigiannakis A, Gray H, Schlienger K, Liebman MN, Rubin SC, Coukos G: Intratumoral T cells, recurrence, and survival in epithelial ovarian cancer. N Engl J Med, 348, 203‐213, 2003 18)Nagorsen D, Scheibenbogen C, Marincola FM...

Kuperwasser, Robert A. Weinberg, Eric S. Lander Summary Screens for agents that specifically kill epithelial cancer stem cells (CSCs) have not been possible due to the rarity of these cells within tumor cell populations and their...