Sentences with phrase «epithelial cells throughout the body»
The virus then enters the blood stream where it is transported to epithelial cells throughout the body, including the intestinal and respiratory tract.
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In a previous study, Professor Schmidt - Ott and his team discovered that it regulates the differentiation of epithelial cells — they line the cavities and surfaces of structures throughout the body — in the mouse embryo.
The EMT is a biological process wherein epithelial cells (cells that line the cavities and surfaces of blood vessels and organs) become mesenchymal (skeletal) stem cells that can move throughout the body and differentiate into a variety of cell types.
The researchers found that this loss of identity allows the relatively well - behaved epithelial cells to transition to bad - acting mesynchemal cells, which are more likely to move throughout the body — the hallmark of metastatic cancer, which is the primary cause of cancer recurrence and patient death.
Previous work by Fredberg and colleagues had documented the importance of collective cellular behavior in asthma, showing that cells comprising epithelial tissues — which line the surfaces of all organs throughout the body — can unjam and flow like a fluid, or jam and freeze like a solid.