Michael Vajdy
Editor

2008

We see ourselves enveloped by our skins. But what we don’t see or usually think about is that most of our body is covered by a different type of epithelial cells than that of the skin. Surprisingly what separates us from the open environment all around us sometimes is a single layer of epithelial cells. It is at these seemingly fragile sites that most pathogens gain access to our inside milieu.