Subcutaneous tissue fibroblasts transfected with muscle and nonmuscle actins: A good in vitro model to study fibroblastic cell plasticity

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-52

  Mounier, N ^a   Desmouliere, A ^a   Gabbiani, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; SKIN FIBROBLAST; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032902706     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-475X.1999.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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