... 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...

... filaments whose organization they regulate. cell migration epithelium macrophage myosin Rho-GAP Rho signalling © The Authors Journal compilation © 2011 Biochemical Society 2011 7 4 2011 Cellular Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins: A Biochemical Society/Wellcome Trust Focused...

...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...

... D.I. Hanley N.A. β-Cell differentiation during early human pancreas development J. Endocrinol. 2004 181 11 23 20 Ahlgren U. Jonsson J. Edlund H. The morphogenesis of the pancreatic mesenchyme is uncoupled from that of the pancreatic epithelium in IPF1/PDX1-deficient...

... 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...