Permeability barriers must exist in transitional epithelium to prevent the free flow of water from underlying blood capillaries through the epithelium into the hypertonic urine, and such a barrier has ...

At the squamocolumnar junction of mice and humans,a new study has identified a unique population of transitional basal cells that express molecular markers of both oesophageal stratified squamous ...

Epithelial cells, which line the body's surfaces and cavities, can be organized into a multi-layered tissue called squamous epithelium (as in the oesophagus and skin) or a single layer of columnar ...