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... team identified a molecular pathway specific to epithelial tissue in the esophagus involving a gene called CAPN14, which they ... up-regulated in the disease process.  Epithelial cells help form the membrane of the esophagus. The scientists report ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2014 - 10:00pm - 0 attachments

... of a mouse esophagus. The dark brown staining shows epithelial cells containing NANOG protein. Credit: CNIO NANOG Is ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 4:01pm - 0 attachments

... that stromal cells use to encourage the tumorigenesis of epithelial cancer cells," said Jorge Moscat, Ph.D., director of the Cell Death ... that p62 activation in prostate and lung cancer epithelial cells had tumor-promoting effects. Cancers of the epithelial cells ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 9:30am - 0 attachments

... therapy. Thymoma is a cancer derived from the epithelial cells of the thymus, an organ critical to the lymphatic system where ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 5:00pm - 0 attachments

... as women age, multipotent progenitors accumulate in breast epithelial tissue. They didn't know why these cells increase in numbers, but ... explore this idea, the scientists examined human mammary epithelial cell samples from pre and post-menopausal women. They wanted to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2014 - 6:00pm - 0 attachments

... mechanism is regulated differently in normal breast epithelial cells. "Rac1 levels in invadopodia of invasive tumor cells ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2014 - 10:39pm - 0 attachments

... with mild allergic asthma. "It was known that the epithelial cells which line the airways in the lungs produce a protein called ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2014 - 10:28am - 0 attachments

... Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and human epithelial cells. MRSA commonly colonizes the epithelium of the nasopharynx, where the bacteria and epithelial cells are exposed constantly to inhaled substances such as ... known to promote pathogen virulence and then introduced epithelial cell- and alveolar macrophage-killing assays. The study was ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2014 - 11:37pm - 0 attachments

... In the experiments, the researchers used single layers of epithelial cells, the type of cells that bind together to form robust sheathes ... of cell sheets affect migration. Top: A patch of epithelial cells. The white lines in the middle image mark the electric current ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 2:09pm - 0 attachments

... The organ structures were engineered using muscle and epithelial cells (the cells that line the body's cavities) from a small biopsy ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 11:38pm - 0 attachments