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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 328, Issue 2, Pages 276-283Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2014.06.006
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Hepatocyte polarity; ECM-signaling; Tissue architecture; Polarized protein trafficking
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- NIH [RO1 DK064842, RO1 CA160790]
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Hepatocytes, the main epithelial cell type of the liver, function like all epithelial cells to mediate the vectorial flow of macromolecules into and out of the organ they encompass. They do so by establishing polarized surface domains and by restricting paracellular flow via their tight junctions and cell-cell adhesion. Yet, the cell and tissue organization of hepatocytes differs profoundly from that of most other epithelia, including those of the digestive and urinary tracts, the lung or the breast. The latter form monolayered tissues in which the apical domains of individual cells align around a central continuous luminal cavity that constitutes the tubules and acini characteristic of these organs. Hepatocytes, by contrast, form capillary-sized lumina with multiple neighbors resulting in a branched, tree-like bile canaliculi network that spreads across the liver parenchyrne. I will discuss some of the key molecular features that distinguish the hepatocyte polarity phenotype from that of monopolar, columnar epithelia. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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