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

Immune cells are known to “remember” infections and inflammatory events so that they can respond faster to future insults, but what about the epithelial stem cells that maintain the skin and promote ...

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, ...

Wound healing serves an important function in biology, as it enables the tissue maintenance that maintains compartmentalization of cell types that drives various processes, including the barrier ...

This meant that calcium ions were likely necessary for epithelial cells to generate the bioelectric signals that guide wound healing. We then blocked the ion channels that allow calcium and other ...