Chronic inflammatory bowel disease is challenging to treat and carries a risk of complications, including the development of ...

The majority of cell signaling, cell-cell adhesion or parasit ... pectin-like polysaccharides show exhibit high bioadhesive activity against epithelial human tissue, especially against GUT tissue ...

Both are epithelial cells, a cell type that forms barriers such as skin and mucous membranes, and also lines organs and body cavities. After blasting some cells with lasers, Yu measured tiny ...

The researchers collected blood samples before and after the plunges to look at how the participants’ cells responded to the cold plunges. “We found that in as little as four days, cold water ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells — which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities — are mute, ...

To our surprise, however, we found that wounded epithelial cells can propagate electrical signals across dozens of cells that persist for several hours. In this newly published research ...

"Epithelial cells do things that no one has ever thought to look for," says Granick. "When injured, they 'scream' to their neighbors, slowly, persistently and over surprising distances. It's like ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a little-known group of stem cells in hair follicles that could bring back lost locks, challenging some long-held beliefs.

Epithelial cells are packed tightly together and serve as a barrier between the interior and the exterior of your body. You have countless epithelial cells throughout your body that make up what ...

Future considerations will include the source of the DNA, as methylation levels in blood differ from those in buccal epithelial cells, skin, fat, or muscle tissue. Among potential applications are ...

It has been established that the electrokinetic properties of buccal epithelial cells reflect the onset of any inflammatory process in the human body. This study compares the functional state of the ...