...Reegan J. Willms; Edan Foley The intestinal epithelium is a complex tissue monolayer composed of regionally and functionally specialized intestinal epithelial cells. Given epithelial exposure to harsh and varied luminal conditions, epithelial cells continuously regenerate to sustain the barrier...

... epithelial cells. These include stratified epithelia, such as the epidermis, hair follicle, cornea and oesophagus, as well as the thymic epithelium, which stands alone among simple and stratified epithelia, and has been shown recently to contain stem cells. In addition, we briefly discuss the pancreas...

... migration epithelium macrophage myosin Rho-GAP Rho signalling Helical actin filaments can serve as tracks for molecular motors owing to their polar structure. The actin-based molecular motors constitute the myosin superfamily. Members of this superfamily share a region with similar amino acid...

...Amanda Goodwin; Gisli Jenkins IPF (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) is a chronic progressive disease of unknown aetiology without effective treatment. IPF is characterized by excessive collagen deposition within the lung. Recent evidence suggests that the lung epithelium plays a key role in driving...

...Jonathan M. Rhodes; Barry J. Campbell; Lu-Gang Yu Similar changes in glycosylation occur in the colonic epithelium in inflammatory conditions such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease and also in colon cancer and precancerous adenomatous polyps. They include reduced length of O-glycans...

...David R. Burgess Cleavage divisions in many animals form a blastula made up of a simple polarized epithelium. This simple embryonic epithelium possesses an apical surface covered with microvilli and primary cilia separated from the basolateral surfaces by cell–cell junctions. The apical membrane...

... has emerged concerning the hierarchy of transcription factors that are implicated in pancreatic development, and it seems that the same set of transcription factors control pancreatic development in both rodents and humans. β-cell differentiation epithelium mesenchyme pancreas pancreatic...

... of Comparative Medicine, Garscube Estate, Glasgow G61 1QH, Scotland, U.K. (email s.v.graham@bio.gla.ac.uk ). 20 1 2008 © The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Biochemical Society 2008 epithelium human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) late regulatory element (LRE) polyadenylation RNA...