Acquisition of invasive and metastatic capabilities is frequently associated with loss of cell–cell adhesion. One of the major constituents of the cell-adhesion complex in epithelial cells is E ...

A study was undertaken to determine (1) whether unstimulated human bronchial epithelium generates complement proteins and expresses cell membrane complement inhibitory proteins (CIP) and (2) whether ...

In this study, donor lung leucocyte content and endothelial activation before and after EVLP was assessed and then the potential of the human amnion epithelial cell (hAEC) secretome to reduce ...