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  2. Epithelium - Wikipedia

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    Epithelium or epithelial tissue is a thin, continuous, protective layer of cells with little extracellular matrix. An example is the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin. Epithelial (mesothelial) tissues line the outer surfaces of many internal organs, the corresponding inner surfaces of body cavities, and the inner surfaces of blood vessels.

  3. Epithelial root sheath - Wikipedia

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    The sheath is also responsible for multiple or accessory roots (medial growth) and lateral or accessory canals in the root (break in epithelium). [3] It is controversial, but HERS may be involved in cementogenesis and the secreting of cementum, or that HERS-derived products might be related to enamel-related molecules, and that these proteins might initiate acellular cementum formation.

  4. Epithelioid cell - Wikipedia

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    Epithelioid cells gather around the focus of necrosis, in direct contact with the necrotic masses, forming a kind of boundary zone.. Structurally, epithelioid cells (when examined by light microscopy after stained with hematoxylin and eosin), are elongated, with finely granular, pale eosinophilic (pink) cytoplasm, and central, ovoid nuclei (oval or elongate), which are less dense than that of ...

  5. Intraepithelial lymphocyte - Wikipedia

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    The majority of IELs (80%) are CD3+, and over 75% of these also express CD8.IELs can be divided into two major subsets based on their CD8 coreceptor expression. [5] One subset of IELs typically express activation marker CD8αα and some IELs express CD8αβ + marker (CD8αβ promotes TCR activation, whereas CD8αα suppresses TCR signals).

  6. Basement membrane - Wikipedia

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    The basement membrane acts as a mechanical barrier, preventing malignant cells from invading the deeper tissues. [7] Early stages of malignancy that are thus limited to the epithelial layer by the basement membrane are called carcinoma in situ. The basement membrane is also essential for angiogenesis (development of new blood vessels).

  7. Transitional epithelium - Wikipedia

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    It can spread to the tissues and fat surrounding the kidney, the fat surrounding the ureter, or, more progressively, lymph nodes and other organs, including bone. Common risk factors of transitional cell carcinoma include long-term misuse of pain medication, smoking, and exposure to chemicals used in the making of leather, plastic, textiles ...

  8. Neuroepithelial cell - Wikipedia

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    The problem of delivery, however, has still not been resolved as neural chimeras have been shown to circulate throughout the ventricles and incorporate into all parts of the CNS. By finding environmental cues of differentiation, neuroepithelial precursor transplantation could be used in the treatment of many diseases including multiple ...

  9. Retinal pigment epithelium - Wikipedia

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    Choroid dissected from a calf's eye, showing black RPE and iridescent blue tapetum lucidum. The RPE was known in the 18th and 19th centuries as the pigmentum nigrum, referring to the observation that the RPE is dark (black in many animals, brown in humans); and as the tapetum nigrum, referring to the observation that in animals with a tapetum lucidum, in the region of the tapetum lucidum the ...