Sentences with phrase «called epithelial»

Specialised follicular cells called epithelial cells surround each follicle.

Your gut is made of a delicate tissue called epithelial tissue.

Cancer cells acquire the ability to invade and migrate, or metastasize, to other tissues, through a process called Epithelial - Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).

In the case of ZEB1, it has an important role in the so - called epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition (EMT), during which epithelial cells acquire the traits of mesenchymal cells.

Among other things, this means CFTR loses the ability to control a protein called the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC).

A trio of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found mutations in a master - switch protein called Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Protein 1 (ESRP1) in individuals with SNHL.

If it worked, these so - called epithelial cells would produce influenza antibodies right at the site where the virus attempts to establish an infection.

These flaws, called epithelial barrier defects, feature in human disorders, including in the skin, gut, and lung.

What's more, the researchers discovered two years ago that the suppression of Esrp activity helps to enable a process called the epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT), in which epithelial cells acquire properties allowing them to detach and develop into new tissue.

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In this study, the researchers found that a specific population of immune cells called macrophages have the ability to secrete or produce a protective or healing factor known as Interleukin - 10 (IL - 10), which can interact with receptors on intestinal epithelial cells to promote wound healing.

The invasion of epithelial cells and immune cells are controlled by two separate gene clusters called Salmonella Pathogenicity Islands 1 and 2 (SPI1, SPI2) respectively.

Using a crystal structure of a complex protein compound of botulinum neurotoxin, Rongsheng Jin, associate professor of physiology & biophysics at UC Irvine, and collaborators found that these compounds — called clostridial hemagglutinin (HA)-- bind with epithelial cell proteins in the intestines of patients, which initiates a process that disrupts the close intercellular seals so that the complex toxin molecules can slip through the epithelial barrier.

Heaton et al. now report that a special type of epithelial cell in the lungs of mice — called club cells — survive influenza infection.

«Our system is based around a molecule called E-cadherin, which suppresses tumor growth in part by maintaining cells in an epithelial rather than a mesenchymal state,» Tomoki Muramatsu of TMDU says.

The new research finds that the stiffness of the extracellular matrix and the availability of certain ligands (molecules that bind to cell membranes) can together determine which genes are actually called on — and whether normal epithelial cells begin to exhibit the behaviors characteristic of highly malignant cancer cells.

Further tests suggested that epithelial cell progenitors helped by restoring the connection between cells called myoepithelial contractile cells and the lacrimal gland's secretory cells, which produce tears.

«It was known that the epithelial cells which line the airways in the lungs produce a protein called thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) that causes inflammation.

HER2 - positive breast cancer, which is associated with poor prognosis, has been traced to an excess of signaling through receptors, or docking ports, called HER2 found on the surface of certain mammary epithelial cells.

«We found that women who consume foods high in two sub-groups of powerful substances called flavonoids — flavonols and flavanones — had a significantly lower risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer.

During pregnancy, hormonal signals cause epithelial cells lining the ducts to proliferate and form ball - like structures called alveoli, which is where milk is made when the baby is born.

To investigate, a team led by Gerburg Wulf, MD, PhD, a physician scientist in the Hematology / Oncology Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, cultured breast cells called primary mammary epithelial cells (MECs) in the presence of EBV.

The tubes enclose hollow spaces called lumens and are primarily composed of a single or multiple layers of epithelial cells.

After lung epithelial cells are damaged, a molecule called heregulin binds to another protein, erbB2.

When a bacterium with the correct - shaped key — called an adhesin — comes by, it attaches itself to the corresponding epithelial cell.

The human airway is lined with two kinds of epithelial cells — those that possess hairlike fringes called cilia and those that don't.

First, a hair follicle contains epithelial cells — a cell type that lines the body's vessels and cavities — as well as a specific kind of adult stem cell called dermal papillae.

As you mentioned, in dry AMD we basically have atrophy in the back of the retina in cells that are called retinal pigment epithelial cells.

Inside the epithelial cell, the tail of E-cadherin binds to a protein called α - catenin, which recruits other proteins that spur assembly and disassembly of actin filaments and is absolutely critical for strong adherence between epithelial cells.

Dorsal closure involves three entities: the cells that fill the gap, called amnioserosa cells, a cable of the protein actin which runs around the gap, and the epithelial cells that eventually stretch over and seal the gap.Until now, scientists believed dorsal closure started when some unknown signal made the amnioserosa cells and the actin cable contract.

Weaver also said that the predictions made by jamming models resemble what biologists call extrusion, a process by which dead epithelial cells are squeezed out of crowded tissue — the disfunction of which has recently been implicated in certain types of cancer.

The stem cell approach I am most excited about involves a treatment to replace cells called retinal pigment epithelial cells.

A class of drugs called EZH2 inhibitors are currently in clinical development for both hematological malignancies and solid tumors and may be effectively targeted to epithelial ovarian cancers overexpressing the CARM1 protein.

The outer layers of intestinal cells (epithelial) are connected by structures called tight junctions.

Barriers called tight junctions guard the pathways between intestinal epithelial cells.

Acid secretion by gastric epithelial cells is related to the physiologic function of oxyntic cells, which are called parietal cells.

These include growths arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growths that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia), and growths due to expansion of the ducts which take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

They include those arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growth that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia) and growths due to expansion of the ducts that take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

A specific type of ulcer that is especially concerning is an indolent ulcer (also called spontaneous chronic corneal epithelial defects, or SCCEDs).