The skin epidermis has become the paradigm for exploring how a stratified epithelium develops in the embryo and how, in the adult, it maintains an inner layer of proliferating cells that gives ...

Barrett's esophagus is an acquired metaplastic abnormality in which the normal stratified squamous epithelium lining of the esophagus is replaced by an intestinal-like columnar epithelium.

In this manuscript the authors established a novel three-dimensional culture system for stratified epithelia that allows epithelial cells to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and ...