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This manuscript describes the surgical technique for robotic enucleation of an esophageal leiomyoma, serving as a reference for similar cases.
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This video describes an in vitro culture technique to generate human organotypic esophageal constructs by co-culturing primary human esophageal fibroblast and squamous epithelial cells within a decellularized porcine scaffold. These 3D culture models mimic the function and physiology of their in vivo tissue counterparts.
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Conditional Reprogramming of Pediatric Human Esophageal Epithelial Cells for Use in Tissue Engineering and Disease Investigation
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Expansion of human pediatric esophageal epithelial cells utilizing conditional reprogramming provides investigators with a patient-specific population of cells that can be utilized for engineering esophageal constructs for autologous implantation to treat defects or injury and serve as a reservoir for therapeutic screening assays.
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2025
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Isolation and Differentiation of Stromal Vascular Cells to Beige/Brite Cells
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Primary white preadipocytes isolated from white adipose tissues in mice can be differentiated into beige/brite cells. Presented here is a reliable cellular model system to study the molecular regulation of "browning" of white fat.
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Matrix production does more than provide physical support: it helps organize the esophageal wall and creates a local environment in which epithelial cells, smooth muscle, blood vessels, and immune cells can respond to stromal signals. Changes in matrix composition or organization may therefore alter communication among these tissues, influencing repair, structural stability, and esophageal function.
Injury and inflammation can change how esophageal stromal cells communicate and participate in tissue remodeling. Their responses may affect the balance between repair and persistent structural change, including fibrosis. Because stromal signals influence several neighboring cell types, altered activity can extend beyond the initial injury and modify epithelial recovery, muscle behavior, vascular interactions, and immune responses.
The epithelium does not respond to injury in isolation. Esophageal stromal cells release signaling molecules that influence epithelial cells while also coordinating with smooth muscle, blood vessels, and immune cells. Studying these interactions helps explain how the surrounding microenvironment shapes epithelial repair and why changes in stromal activity may contribute to abnormal remodeling or impaired esophageal function.
Researchers can use esophageal stromal cell models to examine communication between the epithelium and its surrounding microenvironment. These models provide a way to investigate how stromal populations produce extracellular matrix components and signaling molecules, then assess their relevance to development, wound repair, fibrosis, or tumor progression without treating the epithelium as an isolated system.
This subject supports investigations across several biological processes, including esophageal development, wound repair, fibrosis, and tumor progression. Researchers can ask how stromal behavior changes across these settings and how those changes influence neighboring tissues. Comparing these contexts helps distinguish responses associated with normal maintenance and healing from remodeling linked to disease progression.
Esophageal stromal cells provide a framework for connecting local tissue structure with disease-associated remodeling. Their extracellular matrix and signaling activities can be examined alongside epithelial, muscular, vascular, and immune responses. This integrated perspective is relevant when studying how altered tissue communication affects healing, fibrosis, tumor progression, and the functional organization of the esophageal wall.