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, ...

Slow, silent 'scream' of epithelial cells detected for first time Date: March 17, 2025 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells ...

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 ...

What is great about perovskite tandem cells? Super-high conversion efficiency — over 30 per cent. When the National Solar Mission was launched in 2010, the best solar cells had 17 per cent ...

High grade non-muscle-invasive bladder tumours are treated ... we longitudinally analysed the phenotype of cells released into the urine of bladder cancer patients 3-7 days after BCG instillations.

Intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) are a mucosal immune barrier essential to coordinate host–microbe crosstalk. Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory syndrome with dysfunction in multiple organs including ...

It often progresses undiagnosed until late stages when kidney failure is unavoidable. Testing for an abnormally high level of protein in the urine, a marker of kidney damage, is an accepted method for ...

Tissue homeostasis requires coordinated actions of epithelial, mesenchymal, and immune cells. However, the extent of heterogeneity within the human oral mucosa and how tissue cell types are affected ...

are specialized sensory cells in the intestinal epithelium that sense and transduce nutrient information. Consumption of dietary fat contributes to metabolic disorders, but EEC adaptations to high fat ...