“I believe we've hit not only the cell of origin for lung adenocarcinoma, but also the pathway of origin,” says Kadara. This cancer originates in the epithelial cells that line the lung’s ...
Navin points out that epithelial cells, which line and cover the inside and outside of the body, are the cells that are believed to give rise to cancer. The researchers reported that a median of 3 ...
Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...
epithelial cell death and activation of proinflammatory pathways, which gives rise to the clinical entity known as ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).