Just because an udder is not lactating doesn’t mean it’s not doing anything,” said Ben Enger during the National Mastitis ...

FAP is found in particular on the "stroma" of a tumour, an ecosystem of connective tissue and various non-malignant cell types like blood and immune cells that is thought to be involved in the ...

Research on muscle grafts could help patients in need of heart transplants. Joana Liu/ Staff Artist A healthy heart typically beats at a rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute, with a blood pressure ...

Joint injury induces rapid and sustained diversification of resident and infiltrating synovial macrophage phenotypes, underpinning osteoarthritis-associated synovitis.

[10] Soft tissue sarcomas are by definition stromal tumores. But from a biological point of view any tissue must have both parenchyma and supporting stroma. For STS it can be both internal tissue ...

Stromal cells, which provide structural support to breast tissue, “downregulate fibroblast marker genes and upregulate markers of senescence and cancer-associated fibroblasts.” Immune cells ...

miRNA and mRNA expression were compared to enrich for biological networks relevant to the pathogenesis of COPD. Methods Lung tissue from smokers with no evidence of obstructive lung disease (n=9) and ...

The glucoregulatory functions of pancreatic islets are affected by their surrounding niche and spatial organization. Here, bioengineered stem-cell derived islet niches use bioprinting-based ...

Tissue detection was the first step in the solution ... In the case shown this was used to detect thin areas of stroma between tumor areas in a tumor sample stained immunohistochemically for ...

When a tumor develops, it creates a structure around itself called the tumor stroma, within which blood and lymphatic vessels ensure nutritional and respiratory biological exchanges ...