Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease in which healthy lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 26 (June 28, 2022), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) As a sedentary epithelium turns motile during wound healing, ...

The epithelial lining of our intestine is organized in a crypt-villi architecture and serves many essential functions including maintenance of barrier, digestion and nutrient absorption. Due to the ...

Skin regeneration: Though less directly tied to rhinitis, external nasal defects from surgery or chronic inflammation can be ...

Organoids with both intestinal and colonic regions are able to better represent the human GI tract with Ebola and Marburg infections.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) is a polypeptide growth factor that affects the accumulation of extracellular matrix by many cell ...

Individuals with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were more vulnerable than healthy controls to epithelial cell changes caused by microplastics exposure, based on data from a ...