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    Transitional epithelium is a type of stratified epithelium. Transitional epithelium is a type of tissue that changes shape in response to stretching (stretchable...
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    stratified epithelia. This kind of epithelium is therefore described as pseudostratified columnar epithelium. Transitional epithelium has cells that can change...
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    Transitional cell carcinoma is a type of cancer that arises from the transitional epithelium, a tissue lining the inner surface of these hollow organs...
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    cuboidal or columnar epithelium. Their efferent ducts are composed of transitional epithelium, which merges into squamous epithelium as it enters the distal...
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    a novel palmitoylated surface glycoprotein of human gastrointestinal epithelium". Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 236 (3): 682–6. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1997.6966...
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    calyces to the ureter. It has a mucous membrane and is covered with transitional epithelium and an underlying lamina propria of loose-to-dense connective tissue...
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    squamous epithelium, or a stone in the bile duct that causes the replacement of the secretory columnar epithelium with stratified squamous epithelium (squamous...
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    millimeters in diameter. They are lined with urothelial cells, a form of transitional epithelium, and feature an extra layer of smooth muscle in the lower third...
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    squamous epithelium Stratified keratinized epithelium Stratified transitional epithelium Connective tissues are made up of cells separated by non-living...
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    The vaginal epithelium is the inner lining of the vagina consisting of multiple layers of (squamous) cells. The basal membrane provides the support for...
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    called urothelium, a type of transitional epithelium. Unlike the epithelial lining of most organs, transitional epithelium can flatten and distend. Urothelium...
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    areas of low cuboidal or flat cells can also be present, with transitional epithelium in the outer regions of the longer ducts. Basal cells surround...
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    (called epithelium), three layers of muscle fibres, and an outer adventitia. The inner wall of the bladder is called urothelium, a type of transitional epithelium...
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    Barrett's esophagus are known (i.e. goblet cells occurring in the transitional epithelium of normal esophageal submucosal gland ducts, "pseudogoblet cells"...
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    the urethra that is lined with stratified squamous epithelium (instead of the transitional epithelium that is typical for the urinary tract). During development...
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    Stratified epithelium Stratified squamous epithelium Stratified cuboidal epithelium Stratified columnar epithelium Transitional epithelium Multicellular...
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    described. Keratin-7 is found in simple glandular epithelia, and in transitional epithelium. Epithelial cells of the lung and breast both contain keratin-7...
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    Respiratory epithelium, or airway epithelium, is ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium a type of columnar epithelium found lining most of the respiratory...
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    cytokeratins which an epithelial cell expresses depends mainly on the type of epithelium, the moment in the course of terminal differentiation and the stage of...
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    stratified epithelia. This kind of epithelium is therefore described as pseudostratified columnar epithelium. Transitional epithelium has cells that can change...
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    The ovarian surface epithelium, also called the germinal epithelium of Waldeyer, or coelomic epithelium, is a layer of simple squamous-to-cuboidal epithelial...
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    marrow human kidney endothelial cell of lymphatic vessel transitional epithelium of urinary bladder carotid body calvaria vestibular sensory epithelium...
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    Pseudostratified columnar epithelium is a type of epithelium that, though comprising only a single layer of cells, has its cell nuclei positioned in a...
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    ducts converging to form a papillary duct to channel the fluid. Transitional epithelium begins to be seen. Some chemicals toxic to the kidney, called nephrotoxins...
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    urethra (external urethral sphincter). The bladder's epithelium is termed transitional epithelium which contains a superficial layer of dome-like cells...
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    Invasive urothelial carcinoma (category Epithelium)
    from tissue lining the inner surface of these hollow organs - transitional epithelium. The invading tumors can extend from the kidney collecting system...
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    A stratified squamous epithelium consists of squamous (flattened) epithelial cells arranged in layers upon a basal membrane. Only one layer is in contact...
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    needed for growth of epithelial cervical loops, where the outer and inner epitheliums join and form a reservoir for dental stem cells. After the primary enamel...
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    duct cell Intercalated cell Epithelial / Barrier cells Mesoderm Transitional epithelium urinary bladder Barrier cells Mesoderm Duct cell seminal vesicle...
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    the body which metastasize to the area) is urothelium, a type of transitional epithelium. Urothelial cell cancers comprise just over half of primary urethral...
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