Characterization of adult human heart fibroblasts in culture: A comparative study of growth, proliferation and collagen production in human and rabbit cardiac fibroblasts and their response to transforming growth factor-beta1

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 288, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-93

  Agocha, Augustine ^a   Sigel, Andreas V ^a   Eghbali Webb, Mahboubeh ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac fibroblasts; Cell culture; Collagen production; Growth; Human; Proliferation; Rabbit (New Zealand); Tranforming growth factor beta1

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; RABBITS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030907397     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050795     Document Type: Article

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