Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Two messages emerge from these and related studies: Different regions of the follicle epithelium can produce tumors, and in normal and pathological skin, epithelial–mesenchymal interactions are ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

A breakthrough discovery has revealed that skin cells communicate using a slow, electrical language of their own.

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

Scientists discover "electric spiking" communication in previously thought to be mute cells, paving the way for bioelectric ...

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...

Skin stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells ... insights into the contribution of mechanical forces produced by epithelial stem cell activity in building surrounding tissues, and the roles ...

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, ...

Epithelial cells "talk" to each other with slow electrical signals, and "scream" to their neighbors when injured, new ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of ...