In Barrett's esophagus, cells lining your esophagus, called squamous epithelial cells, undergo changes that make them more like the intestinal lining. This inflammatory response turns them into ...

Esophageal exposure to gastroduodenal contents results in dilated intercellular spaces and increased epithelial permeability to noxious agents, which leads to symptom generation by activation of ...

In a new paper appearing in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, a leading scientific publication in the field of research on skin and connective tissue, The Hormel Institute, University of ...

The esophagus is lined by a layer of epithelial cells that directly faces the esophageal lumen and is supported from below by a mixture of fibroblast cells and surrounding extracellular matrix ...

The inner lining of the digestive tract is made up of cells known as epithelial cells. In the esophagus, they take the form of squamous, or stratified, cells, which are layered horizontally, like ...

Esophageal cancer, a highly aggressive malignancy originating in the esophageal epithelium, poses significant public health challenges in China, where it ranks sixth in incidence and fifth in ...

Esophageal cancer may not show symptoms immediately, ... The tumor is growing into tissue in the esophagus called the epithelium but has not spread to lymph nodes or other areas of the body. 1B: ...

Even this definition became problematic when it was discovered that as many as 1 in 5 Barrett's esophagus patients have this specific epithelium in the region of an otherwise normal-appearing ...

The squamous epithelia of the esophagus and the columnar epithelia of the stomach meet at the gastroesophageal junction." Dr. Naveen Kumar Nirchal, one of the first authors of the study.

Obesity appears to be associated with malignant progression of Barrett’s esophagus (BE), according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis. A dose-response relationship exists between ...