Sentences with phrase «epithelial tissues such»

In a wide range of epithelial tissues such as kidney tubules or breast acini, cells organize into bidimensional monolayers experiencing an out - of - plane curvature.

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Vit A is required for normal vision, for maintaining the integrity and normal functioning of glandular and epithelial tissue, for skeletal growth, for maintenance of immunity, and for protection against certain cancers such as bronchial cancer.

Basically, when you look at different types of cells, such as fibroblasts, which form connective tissue, or epithelial cells, from saliva, you see general correlations within a person.

Histochemical analysis indicated the existence of tissues from all three germ layers, such as neural epithelial cells (ectoderm), intestines (endoderm) and muscle (mesoderm)(Figure 6A).

Another issue is that mucus is essential for immunity at epithelial surfaces, and glycosylation is essential for the integrity of cellular junctions and tissue barriers such as the intestinal and blood - brain barriers.

Alpha Herpesviruses such as FHV - 1 cause disease by two distinctly different mechanisms: 1) cytolytic (cell - rupturing) disease which involves active viral replication and destroys the epithelial cells of the cornea and conjunctiva causing ulceration; and, 2) immune - mediated disease results from the deposition of viral antigen in subepithelial tissues.

The viral infection mostly targets the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts of dogs, although there is an increasing incidence of canine distemper that invades the brain and spinal cord as well as other organs and tissues of the body such as optic nerves, urogenital structures, and epithelial tissues.