Molecular aspects of the epithelial phenotype.

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Epithelia can be defined morphologically as tissues that line surfaces, and ultrastructurally with reference to their cells' apico-basal polarity and possession of specific cell-cell junctions. Defining the epithelial phenotype at a molecular level is more problematic--while it is easy to name proteins (e.g. keratins) expressed by a 'typical' epithelium, no known molecules are expressed by every epithelium but by...

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