Research on gastrointestinal diseases, especially cancer, has mainly focused on epithelial cells, which line the surfaces of ...

Epithelial cells form a layer in which an apical surface is exposed to the external environment and to other forms of stress in ducts in specialized organs. As such, epithelial cells require ...

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, ...

The authors stimulated intestinal epithelial cells of the human Caco-2 colon ... colon length, and histology). Western blots and immunohistochemical analysis of colon tissue showed that ...