Our skin and mucous membranes are protected by epithelial cells, which form a barrier that defends the body from the outside ...

Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction is a condition where the part of the kidney that normally drains urine becomes blocked. This blockage prevents the normal flow of urine out of the kidney and ...

Plans to revamp a number of key road junctions on the edge of Nottingham have been approved. Nottinghamshire County Council said the works were intended to improve safety for cyclists and ...

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These connective structures, called adherens junctions, play important roles in tissue development and renewal, but remain poorly understood, said Sergey Troyanovsky, Ph.D., professor of ...

This function relies to a large extent on the presence of "adherens" and "tight junctions," veritable protein locks linking neighboring cells and ensuring tissue tightness. Tight junctions ...

A familiar sight in Bishan will be gone soon. The newsstand Newspoint, located next to the Junction 8 mall, will permanently close on Mar 31 after 30 years in operation. Its owner, Wang Yaojiang, said ...

Residents, businesses, and commuters are being asked to have their say on plans to improve the ‘Bayswater Triangle’, particularly the A58 Roundhay Road junctions with Bayswater Road ...

MP for Newbury Lee Dillon said the route was "vital" for the region but the entry slip road at East Ilsley was one of the junctions "putting lives at risk". Labour's Olivia Bailey, Liberal ...

where X denotes a set of the adherens junction sites in the cell, and U denotes the scalar field. The model also included an area constraint These results suggest that the increased apical surface ...