Permeability barriers must exist in transitional epithelium to prevent the free flow of water from underlying blood capillaries through the epithelium into the hypertonic urine, and such a barrier has ...

New study in The American Journal of Pathology suggests potential avenues of research to develop new therapies to improve survival and prevent chronic lung disease in COVID-19 and non--COVID-19 acute ...

The lung is a highly specialised organ that develops through a complex series of branching events and cellular differentiation processes. From the initial budding of the foregut, the formation of ...

Everolimus treatment-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) as a prognostic factor in Japanese patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 ASCO ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a previously unknown process used by epithelial cells to alleviate epithelial tissue crowding and avoid cell damage and loss, according to a recent ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...