Related Stories The team collected bronchial epithelial cells during diagnostic bronchoscopies. These cells, among the most ...

The fascinatingly diverse detail of a rat’s bronchial epithelial surface. Long, hair-like structures, known as ciliated cells, are important for the bronchi’s self-clearing mechanisms.

epithelia cells in the bronchi and oviducts, and ependymal cells that line brain vesicles. But virtually all other cells have a primary cilium. Likewise, for many years it was generally assumed ...

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, ...

As a result of the compression, the epithelial cells run out of space and end up ... inflamed airways with inhalers that ...

Airway epithelial cells act as a physical barrier against environmental toxins and injury, and modulate inflammation and the immune response. As such, maintenance of their integrity is critical.

A therapy using a patient's own proximal basal stem cells shows promise to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Epithelial cells, previously thought to be silent, have been found to communicate using slow electrical signals, similar to nerve impulses but 1,000 times slower ...