It's not just snakes that shed. Animals like caterpillars, birds, and frogs do, too. Here's a list of 10 animals that shed.

Meanwhile, not exfoliating is another no-no. “Dead skin cells often remain on the skin’s surface, as they are held together by proteins called desmosomes which acts like a glue clustering them ...

These gaps (junctions) or holes (called desmosomes) in the stomach lining can permit partially digested food, toxins, and bugs to penetrate the tissues beneath them and leak into the bloodstream.

We used cDNA microarrays to explore the variation in expression of approximately 8,000 unique genes among the 60 cell lines used in the National Cancer Institute's screen for anti-cancer drugs.

The terms "intestinal barrier" and "intestinal permeability" describe two different aspects of the same anatomical structure, the intestinal wall composed of four layers, the mucosa, the submucosa ...

Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health (R.L.P., G.A.B., K.E.S., D.R.K.), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at ...