Lewis' law
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lewis-law-291-15589374
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Lewis' law
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Lewis' law gives a relationship between the size and the shape of epithelial cells. It states that the average apical area A ¯ n of an epithelial cell is linearly related to its neighbor number n . It is a phenomenological law that was first described in the cucumber epidermis by the morphologist Frederic Thomas Lewis in 1928. The simplest version of Lewis' law can be expressed as A n ¯ A ¯ = n − 2 4 , which reads: The average apical area of a cell with n neighbors is proportional to its shape.
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Observed property of epithelial cells
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2024-04-23T05:28:48Z
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