Sentence examples for umbrella cell from inspiring English sources

Adaptation of the urothelial cell line to hyperosmolal culture conditions induces expression of both cytokeratin 20 and uroplakin II, markers of a superficial urothelial cell or "umbrella cell".

It is unclear whether the bacteria are fit enough following their stay in the umbrella cell lysosomes to start another invasive cycle [19].

The most severe lesions were present in the superficial umbrella cell layer of urinary bladder urothelium, where small numbers of degenerating cells were interspersed among urothelial cells distended by large vacuoles that were either empty or partially filled with pale eosinophilic granular material.

Particularly characteristic are K13 expressed in the basal and intermediate cell layers and K20 specific for the superficial (umbrella) cell layer.

Previous finding confirmed that CK20 showed patchy cytoplasmic immunoreactivity in the superficial umbrella cell layer of the normal urothelium [ 8] and nonneoplastic urothelium showed no reactivity to CK20 except for umbrella cells [ 9].

In addition, the umbrella cell layer (i.e., the luminal surface of the urothelium) of the bladder is not rapidly dividing and should therefore be resistant to infection and lysis by replication-competent oncolytic viruses, which selectively infect and replicate within rapidly dividing cells.

They were lined by 3 to 8 layers of normal-appearing urothelial cells often covered by a continuous or discontinuous layer of superficial (umbrella) cells.

In a minority population of BrdU (less than 0.1%) retained cells in 6-month-old mice were located in the umbrella cells (CK 20 positive).

In addition, we were able to image the intracellular bacterial communities of type 1-fimbriated bacteria grown between the intermediate filament bundles of the umbrella cells, shedding light on the bacterial colonization of the urothelium.

No PAR1 immunostaining was observed in umbrella cells.

In the superficial differentiated layer of the urothelium, the umbrella cells, high CK8 expression was observed.