Circulating fibrocytes: Collagen-secreting cells of the peripheral blood

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 598-606

  Quan, Timothy E ^a   Cowper, Shawn ^a   Wu, Sou Pan ^a   Bockenstedt, Linda K ^a   Bucala, Richard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen presenting cell; CD34+; Collagen; Fibrocyte; Fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHEMOKINE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CIRCULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; HARDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; KELOID; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SCLERODERMA; SECRETORY CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN DISEASE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; WOUND HEALING;

ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; NEOPLASMS; PROTEINS; WOUND HEALING;

SCLERODERMA;

EID: 1542269059     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2003.10.005     Document Type: Review

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