Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

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 — ar ...

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, ...

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of ...

Epithelial cells "talk" to each other with slow electrical signals, and "scream" to their neighbors when injured, new research has discovered.

在癌症研究领域，自噬 (Autophagy) 与上皮-间质转化 (Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, EMT) 的关系一直是科学家们关注的热点。近日，由Cordani, M.、Zarrabi, A.及Allameh, ...

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Ovarian cancer is the deadliest form of gynecologic cancer, taking the lives of more than 13,000 women in the U.S. each year.