TRiPs Across Epithelial and Endothelial Barriers in Health and Disease

Life on Earth began some 4 billion years ago when the first primitive prokaryotes managed to isolate themselves from the rather hostile environment. The immediate challenge that these first life forms faced was to ensure an optimal balance between two apparently mutually exclusive tasks – protection and separation from the extracellular milieu on the one hand and an efficient exchange of ions, ene...