Entering the thymus, precursor lymphocytes interact with the thymus stromal compartment mainly built of epithelial cells, and from the enormous variety of produced lymphocytes, only the specific ones ...

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...

Pathogens infecting the porcine respiratory mucosa via aerosols and/or droplets often initiate their replication in respiratory epithelial cells (RECs) in the upper tract (7). After this first ...

uni-koeln.de Objective The gut microbiota modulates host susceptibility to intestinal inflammation, but the cell types and the signalling pathways orchestrating this bacterial regulation of intestinal ...

Objective Barrett's oesophagus commonly presents as a patchwork of columnar metaplasia with and without goblet cells in the distal oesophagus. The presence of metaplastic columnar epithelium with ...

Mozart Therapeutics, the leading developer of CD8 Treg network modulators in autoimmune disease, announces the presentation ...

MSCs regulate many effector functions of innate immune cells, such as antigen presentation by dendritic cells (DCs), natural killer (NK)-cell cytotoxicity and the activation of neutrophils.

Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, ...

A recent study led by Associate Professor Takuya Yamamoto and Researcher May Nakajima-Koyama has revealed that maintaining a delicate balance between interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and extracellular ...

The cancer takes root in epithelial cells, the top layer of cells lining these cavities ... His team is also exploring ...

Hair comes from follicles, which are simple organs made up of cells called epithelial cells. Epithelial cells are the cells that line the organs and function to provide a protective barrier. Hair also ...