Sentences with phrase «layer of endothelial cells»

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The blood - brain barrier is a layer of tightly packed endothelial cells and connective cells called astrocytes that strictly regulates the flow of chemicals in and out of the brain.

Epithelial cells form tissue layers that cover our skin and the inner surfaces of most of our internal organs, while endothelial cells line the adjacent blood - transporting vessels and capillaries that support their functions.

Finally, the team added a layer of the patient's own endothelial cells, which promote smooth blood flow, on the inside of the vessel.

Among other effects, immune cells disrupt the function of the endothelial layer, the lining of the blood vessels, counteracting «all the good things that the endothelial cells produce,» says physiologist Brett Mitchell of Texas A&M College of Medicine in College Station.

To study this barrier and determine why a lack of blood flow causes it to leak, the researchers built a blood - vessel - on - a-chip model consisting of a channel lined with a layer of human endothelial cells surrounded by extracellular matrix within a microfluidic device, which allowed them to easily simulate and control the flow of blood through a vessel and evaluate the cells» responses.

Endothelial cells form the innermost layer of the blood vessels - the endothelium - and have the function of containing blood inside the vessels while allowing the passage of nutrients to tissues.

Forty - eight hours after wounding, the endothelial layer of cells (from the periphery all the way to the central area) showed considerable fluorescence due to BrdU incorporation.

These were mainly hemangiomas characterized by abundant capillaries lined by a single layer of well - differentiated endothelial cells.

The SPG cell layer, which is adjacent to the neurons of the brain, forms septate junctions, which function as a barrier to separate the humoral space and the brain, analogously to the mammalian tight junctions formed between endothelial cells.

The iPS cells are cultured on the opposite side of the membrane in the other channel that represents the glomerulus» urinary compartment, where they are induced to form a layer of mature podocytes that extend long cellular processes through the pores in the membrane and contact the underlying endothelial cells.

Moreover, ES cell differentiation in vitro recapitulates events that take place during early embryonic development including the formation of the three germ layers of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, and the emergence of endothelial, hematopoietic, cardiac, neuronal and hepatic or pancreatic cells [8], [9].