unm.edu Gastrointestinal distress, such as diarrhoea, cramping, vomiting, nausea and gastric pain are common among athletes ... during exercise causes disruption to intestinal epithelial cell tight ...

is interested in how tight junctions interact with the cytoskeleton—the internal framework of cells—to regulate cell architecture, as well as the various functions performed by the epithelium.

In healthy gastric epithelium, the molecule is usually located within tight junctions that connect cells and isn't typically found in other tissues. After cancer develops, it can move to the ...