Dendritic cells (DCs) sample the airway luminal content for the presence of allergens by crossing the airway epithelial-cell barrier. Most clinically relevant allergens can promote allergic ...

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"By reinforcing the gut's protective barrier, we might prevent bacteria from invading the epithelial cells that line the intestine, which could halt both the onset and progression of the disease ...

A few years ago, the research group succeeded in generating an epithelial cell line that specifically and completely lacks ...

Porosome Therapeutics, Inc. announced the Orphan Drug Designation of its cystic fibrosis therapy by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

According to their model, if they changed the magnitude of various parameters, they should be able to rescale the curves so that they essentially collapse onto a single curve. “This makes our ...

We used MCF-7, a model breast epithelial cell line, partly because it is devoid of vimentin, which therefore makes it easier to define functions related to specific vimentin mutations.

The group identified 24 different types of epithelial cells using single-cell RNA sequencing ... the body's first line of defense against viruses, and limiting viral replication.

The peritoneum is a layer of thin tissue that lines the inside of the tummy (abdomen ... Or if it spread there from somewhere else in your digestive system. Some epithelial ovarian cancers are ...