The Protein You’ve Never Heard Of That Helps You Hear
Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells, which form a barrier that defends the body from the outside ...
The fine control of cell mechanics: Gamma-actin protein may play crucial role in cell membrane stiffness and hearing
Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells. This barrier tissue performs its function thanks to ...
Cells lining your skin and organs can generate electricity when injured − potentially opening new doors to treating wounds
Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...
Pulmonary Fibrosis News3d
Using patient’s own stem cells shows promise as IPF treatment
A therapy using a patient's own proximal basal stem cells shows promise to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
‘Irreversible’ eye damage fixed by stem cells in human trial
Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for themselves.
EMBO Press3d
HDAC6 deacetylates ENKD1 to regulate mitotic spindle behavior and corneal epithelial homeostasis
HDAC6 is upregulated in corneal diseases and causes ENKD1 deacetylation at lysine 98. Deacetylation of ENKD1 blocks its ...
Nature12y
Cell Adhesion and Cell Communication
The side-to-side junctions that link epithelial cells are diverse in their protein makeup and function. The adhesive transmembrane proteins anchoring these junctions have extracellular portions ...
Nature7y
Cell Differentiation and Tissue
It is also a function of cellular arrangement. Both cell junctions and cytoskeletal networks help stabilize tissue architecture. For instance, the cells that make up human epithelial tissue attach ...