The Different Types of Epithelia

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Simple squamous epithelia is one layer thick of flat cells. So it's very thin, like all these pancake cells, but they're not on top of each other and just next to each other. It's simply there as a minor barrier, separating out the environments,. But obviously wants to interact with the environment. Otherwise, it wouldn't be thin. Diffusion. We can then guess and impute where we can find it, and then talk about what it does in that particular area. Let's now talk about, because it's 41 minutes in, and we haven't spoken about some space. So where you can find each example of these epithelia that we spoke

One of the four tissue types of the body, epithelia lines and protects our organs from the external and internal environment. In this episode, Dr Matt & Dr Mike explain how the different shape and layers of epithelia tell you what function it performs (form = functions) and highlight examples in the body where you can find each type. They also explore cancer, metaplasia, dysplasia, and Dr Matt's mums skin cancer diagnosis and surgery.

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