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, serving ...

In studies of survivors up to one week of age, some of whom had received "high concentrations" of oxygen, Boss and Craig 15 showed regenerative repopulation of the epithelia in alveoli ...

Type-I pneumocytes form the main epithelial lining of the alveoli, characterized by their squamous shape, prominent perinuclear region, and centrally positioned nucleus. In contrast, Type-II ...

Martha graduated from University of Cambridge with a BA in Natural Sciences and went on to do a PhD in cell biology at University College London. She then undertook postdoctoral work at Massachusetts ...

School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, BelfastBT9 7BL, U.K.