Open AccessBuried myoepithelial stem cells as a reservoir for repairing the exposed airway epithelium
Author(s) -
Carlotta Duval,
Mika Watanabe,
Giacomo Donati
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
stem cell investigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.884
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2313-0792
pISSN - 2306-9759
DOI - 10.21037/sci.2018.11.07
Subject(s) - myoepithelial cell , respiratory epithelium , airway , epithelium , stem cell , lung , anatomy , pathology , biology , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , surgery , immunohistochemistry
The tracheal epithelium that connects the upper airway to the lung consists of two compartments, the submucosal gland (SMG) and the surface airway epithelium (SAE). Less exposed to environmental hazards, myoepithelial cells (MECs) in SMG represent a stem cell reservoir to repair severely injured surface epithelia (1,2).
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