[HTML][HTML] Staying away from the breaking point: Probing the limits of epithelial cell elimination

R Levayer - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Epithelial tissues are dramatically remodelled during embryogenesis and tissue
homeostasis and yet need to maintain their sealing properties to sustain their barrier …

The epithelium takes the stage in asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases

R López-Posadas, DC Bagley… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The epithelium is a dynamic barrier and the damage to this epithelial layer governs a variety
of complex mechanisms involving not only epithelial cells but all resident tissue constituents …

A life off the beaten track in biomechanics: Imperfect elasticity, cytoskeletal glassiness, and epithelial unjamming

L Atia, JJ Fredberg - Biophysics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Textbook descriptions of elasticity, viscosity, and viscoelasticity fail to account for certain
mechanical behaviors that typify soft living matter. Here, we consider three examples. First …