{"id":847,"date":"2017-05-30T21:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en-mol.icb.usp.br\/?page_id=847"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:38:11","slug":"2-23-covering-epithelia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/2-23-covering-epithelia\/","title":{"rendered":"2-23 Covering epithelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\">\n  <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-1\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <strong>TRANSITIONAL EPITHELIUM &#8211; 2 <\/strong><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n  <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\nThe drawing shows how the cells of transitional epithelia change during the different states of bladder filling.<br \/>\nWhen the bladder is empty or contains little urine, the epithelium is higher and formed by a greater number of layers. When the bladder contains much urine, the epithelial cells rearrange themselves, the number of layers decrease, the epithelium gets thinner and the superficial cells may become flat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n  <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26B.jpg \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/2-24-covering-epithelia\/\">NEXT PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/2-22-covering-epithelia\/\">PREVIOUS PAGE <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/2-0-epithelial-tissue\/\">MENU OF THIS CHAPTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/847\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}