Cytokine mediated proliferation of cultured sea turtle blood cells: Morphologic and functional comparison to human blood cells

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-309

  Morgan, Doris A ^a   Class, Reiner ^a   Violetta, Gary ^b   Soslau, Gerald ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SeaWorld Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Morphology; Platelets; Sea turtle; Thrombocytes

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PADGEM PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT CYTOKINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 67649986446     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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