In the current pandemic of COVID-19, many patients have reported symptoms of loss of smell and taste. The cellular basis of this phenomenon has not been satisfactorily explained so far. However, a ...

Cell extrusion in villus units with basal lamina. (a) Time-lapse images of epithelial extrusion in the upper villus of mouse jejunum.(b) Representative cell extrusion in the middle phase.Left ...

Our discovery of basal spot junctions in epithelial tissues has given us new insights into how epithelial cells adhere to each other and how epithelial tissues grow to the right size and shape." ...