Sentences with phrase «epithelial cell size»

In the kidney, autophagy is required to control epithelial cell size in response to the urinary flow in the proximal tubule.

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Additionally, overexpression of POSTN in human mammary epithelial and breast cancer cells resulted in enhanced tumor growth and metastasis (Wang et al., 2013), which is similar to a colon cancer cell model where overexpression of POSTN resulted in an increase in the number and size of liver metastases (Bao et al., 2004).

Here we show that confluent epithelial cells cultured on finite population - sized domains, exhibit collective low - frequency radial displacement modes as well as stochastic global rotation reversals.

Drosophila imaginal discs, simple epithelial invaginations that grow one thousand fold in mass and cell number, are probably one of the best model systems to analyze at the genetic and molecular level the control of size in a growing epithelium.