epithelial

A friend is actually working on looking at the effect carbon nanotubes have on lung epithelial cells, so I know there's interest there.

The gut (and generally mucous epithelial) mucus is there for (amongst other things) clearing and maintaining a microbiome.

The theory behind the ultra marathoners is that extreme distance running disrupts the epithelial layer and microbiome in the gut.

She ended up switching to primary lung epithelial cells for her experiments because the differentiation protocol was too difficult to replicate.

The male identification came not from mtDNA, but from DNA extracted from epithelial cells.

Vegans are typically deficient in retinol which is used in the development of epithelial cells an essential and basic component of animal tissue.

Tumours, however, also might cause inflammatory response to promote cancer progression through hijacking cell signalling, promoting epithelial-mesenchymal transitions, etc...

BCG infects the actual epithelial cancer cells inside the bladder, triggering Th-1 response (production and release of cytokines by activated CD4 T cells).

Especially for topical/mucosal/epithelial infections, where the infected tissue is accessible without invasive surgery.

As a toxic mechanism, cry proteins bind to specific receptors on the membranes of mid-gut (epithelial) cells of the targeted pests, resulting in their rupture.

With inflammation, comes neo-vascularization, nerve destruction, and more epithelial defects.

Does cold plasma reduce epithelial scarring?

I'm made even less certain by the finding that the epigenomic changes are strongly concentrated in pathways like "Bacterial infection of epithelial cells".

[0] From the abstract: "Here, we report that oral administration of 10-HSA prevented AFB1-induced gut epithelial barrier disruption and preserved mucosal T cell populations.

And the only "decision-making" happening here is within a single cell, but of course cells don't "make decisions', cells are little machines, and part of the mechanism for epithelial cells -- a mechanism that works in part using chemistry and electricity -- includes the cell signaling that it needs to be extruded in certain circumstances, like shrinkage.