Sentences with phrase «other epithelial tissue»

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Esrp1 and Esrp2 are active specifically in epithelial cells, which form the skin, the inner layers of the gut and lung, and other tissues in the body.

«An immediate use of our study will be to look into other human epithelial tissues to see if this finding is unique to the breast or a more general phenomenon,» says Dr. Gilley.

Corresponding to the primary function of epithelial tissues, i. e. forming a barrier between compartments, epithelial cells form tight adhesions between each other, and display only lateral mobility, confined by the basement membrane.

As anticipated from the identification of Lgr5 + as a marker of ASCs in multiple other tissues, a similar approach proved successful in generating organoids or tumoroids from virtually any epithelial organ or tissue (2,3).

Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.

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

Among other things, when the embryon grows into a fetus, the ectoderm gives rise to the central and the peripheral nervous system, the mesoderm gives rise to connective tissue, the kidneys and the bones and muscles, and the entoderm gives rise to the epithelial lining of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts, the liver and the pancreas.

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.

These growths originate in the epithelial tissue of a gland beneath a nipple and eventually spread (metastasize) to the lymph nodes, lungs, pleura, liver, adrenal gland, kidney, or other parts of the body.