Urothlelium facilitates the recruitment and transdifferentiation of fibroblasts into smooth muscle in acellular matrix

Journal of Urology

Volumn 170, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 1628-1632

  Master, Viraj A ^b   Wei, Guanghui ^b   Liu, Wenhui ^b   Baskin, Laurence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bladder; Epithelium; Extracellular matrix; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; EDETIC ACID; UROPLAKIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPINA BIFIDA; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUBERCULOSIS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0041315378     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000084407.24615.f8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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