Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

Observations of electrical signal propagation across colonies of epithelial cells suggest they may be able to communicate, ...

The most common surgical complications in obese patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) include wound infection, ...

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, ...

Improving wound healing Our discovery that epithelial cells can electrically speak up during a crisis without compromising their primary role as a barrier opens doors for new ways to treat wounds.