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SUBMITTER: Roy J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754344 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roy Jeremy J Kim Bongki B Hill Eric E Visconti Pablo P Krapf Dario D Vinegoni Claudio C Weissleder Ralph R Brown Dennis D Breton Sylvie S
Nature communications 20160212
Epithelial cells are generally considered to be static relative to their neighbours. Basal cells in pseudostratified epithelia display a single long cytoplasmic process that can cross the tight junction barrier to reach the lumen. Using in vivo microscopy to visualize the epididymis, a model system for the study of pseudostratified epithelia, we report here the surprising discovery that these basal cell projections--which we call axiopodia--periodically extend and retract over time. We found tha ...[more]