How to Use epithelial in a Sentence

epithelial

adjective

• Our skin cells are epithelial cells, as are the cells that form the walls of many of our organs.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2018
• Long-term exposure to heat and ozone causes a reaction with the epithelial cells in the lungs.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Aug. 2023
• After studying the effects of each gene found in the lung epithelial cells, Biering et al.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• As seen in the image above, the central gray core is the human epithelial tissue that makes up the outer flesh of our mouth muscles.
  — Popular Science, 20 Apr. 2020
• When the scientists removed the growth factors, the cells began to morph into the epithelial cells that produce venom in the glands of snakes.
  — Erin Malsbury, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• In humans, the virus’ spike protein attaches to the ACE2 receptor on epithelial cells and enters the lungs.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2020
• Paneth cells are specialized epithelial cells which line the surface of the small intestine.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022
• For the new study, the scientists first wanted to see what happened when epithelial cells were introduced to a virus-like challenge.
  — Maggie Chen, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023
• The combination means that the needles can penetrate the outer layers of the cornea, the epithelial and stromal layers, which protect the eye.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2018
• Collagen peptides have been shown to help improve the health of the gut by strengthening the epithelial barrier.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
• One is a flat sheet of epithelial cells that have an up-and-down orientation—like the cell of a swimming choanoflagellate, which has a distinct top and bottom (see video, right).
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 24 Feb. 2021
• Both endothelial cells in the blood vessel and epithelial cells in the respiratory tract have the same protein receptor that binds with the virus.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
• McCole has found that weightlessness made epithelial cells—which line the gut and stop invaders from entering the body—easier to evade.
  — Jessica Wapner, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2023
• In some cases, the healthy epithelial cells turn into earlier-stage mesenchymal cells, break free from the tumor and become mobile in the body.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2020
• Metastatic carcinoma is a type of cancer that originates in epithelial tissue and has spread to other parts of the body.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2014
• In petri dishes, however, the toxin damages DNA and triggers cancerous changes in the epithelial cells that give rise to colon cancer.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Typically as a woman ages, the epithelial cells in breast disappear and are replaced by fat.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Apr. 2017
• Dry AMD is a breakdown or thinning of retinal pigment epithelial cells, which support the light-sensitive cells.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• Scientists at Université Laval in Quebec found that exposing epithelial cells, the cells that line our mouths, to nicotine and flavoring reagents caused over half of the cells to die in just three days.
  — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2021
• These proteins are all present on epithelial, or surface, cells of the human airway, presenting easy targets to any airborne virus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
• Within your respiratory tract, the epithelial cells lining your airways and lungs serve as the first line of defense against inhaled pathogens and debris.
  — Hayley Muendlein, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2022
• The outside of the structure would be repopulated with mesenchymal stem cells from the patient's own bone marrow, and the inside seeded with their epithelial cells.
  — Matt Warren, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2018
• Imagine a dermal patch that integrates these chips with nanoneedles, which inject their output into the skin’s epithelial cells.
  — Andrew Hessel, Ars Technica, 20 June 2019
• Nasally, vitamin B12 can be absorbed across epithelial cells, which line the nasal cavities and airways.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
• In his mid-30s, Matthew was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, a cancer of epithelial tissue, the cells that cover the surface of the body’s organs.
  — Mia Berry, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2019
• That means the company can start a fresh clinical trial early next year for the drug candidate, which aims to treat a disease called persistent corneal epithelial defect.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
• This means that the epithelial cells and nearby immune cells are increasingly exposed to bacteria and potentially other substances, like yeast, that are found in the colon.
  — Jill Seladi-Schulman, SELF, 15 Feb. 2022
• For instance, epithelial cystadenomas are benign growths that can be filled with a watery or mucous-based liquid, according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Nov. 2018
• In cell cultures of lung epithelial cells, Binder tested whether the larger numbers of MDA5s, as observed in children, might preserve the interferon reaction.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 26 Aug. 2021
• Precancerous epithelial cells in the mouth and the cervix, in particular, are likely to develop into cancer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024