Most if not all organs in mammals have adult stem cells that have some capacity to make and repair tissues throughout the lifetime of the organism. To understand how stem cells achieve these functions ...

Cellular plasticity, the ability of cells to reprogramme and alter their fate, has a pivotal role in maintaining homeostasis and facilitating tissue regeneration after injury. The bladder urothelium, ...

Compared to cellular and organismal homeostasis, tissue homeostasis is not yet well understood. (Medzhitov) Cells have three division-of-labor relationships: (1) cell types perform different functions ...