Effective treatment of many debilitating diseases without side effects could occur by delivering drugs more efficiently to underlying mucosal layers in a controlled manner. Impact of Mucosal ...

The five echo layers are histologically correlated with the mucosa [layer 1], muscularis mucosa [layer 2], submucosa [layer 3], muscularis propria [layer 4], and serosa or adventitia [layer 5 ...

Tears are made up of three layers: a mucous, watery, and oily layer, each of which comes together from separate glands. When the gland that produces the oily layer doesn't function properly ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

A research team led by Prof. ZENG Zhutian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) identified and named a novel population of bladder-resident macrophages, termed suburothelial ...