Follicle-associated epithelium

Rieux, A.D., Fievez, V., Theate, L, Mast, J., Preat, V., and Chneider, Y.-J., An improved in vitro model of human intestinal follicle-associated epithelium to study nanoparticle transport by M cells, Eur. J. Pharm. Sci., 30, 380, 2007. 

Zhao, X., Sato, A., Dela Cruz, C. S., Linehan, M., Luegering, A., Kucharzik, T., Shirakawa, A. K., Marquez, G., Farber, J. M., Williams, I., and Iwasaki, A. (2003). CCL9 is secreted by the follicle-associated epithelium and recruits dome region Peyer s patch CDllb-l-dendritic cells. J. Immunol. 171, 2797-2803. 

D. E. Bockman, and M. D. Cooper, Pinocytosis by epithelium associated with lymphoid follicles in the bursa of Fabricius, appendix, and Peyer s patches, Am. J. Anat. 136 455 (1973). 

Qvarian cancer is much less common in married women, and during the last 30 years a direct inverse association has been found between the number of pregnancies and the duration of use of oral contraception on the one hand and the occurrence of ovarian cancer on the other. In 1971 a Lancet reviewer suggested that incessant ovulation might be a causal factor for the development of cancer of the ovary, in that the repeated rupture of follicles involved a cycle of damage to the surface epithelium,... 

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