For instance, the cells that make up human epithelial tissue attach to one ... The extracellular matrix (ECM) is also critical to tissue structure, because it provides attachment sites for cells ...

Biomedical imaging with light-scattering spectroscopy (LSS) is a novel optical technology developed to probe the structure of living epithelial cells in situ without need for tissue removal.

It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells—which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities—are mute, serving ...