Telocytes in human term placenta: Morphology and phenotype

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 325-339

  Suciu, Laura ^a,b   Popescu, Laurenţiu M ^a,b   Gherghiceanu, Mihaela ^b   Regalia, Teodor ^a,b   Nicolescu, Mihnea I ^a,b   Hinescu, Mihail E ^a,b   Faussone Pellegrini, Maria Simonetta ^c  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b National Institute of Pathology   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

CD117 c kit; Human placenta; Interstitial Cajal like cells; Telocytes; Telopodes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CAVEOLIN 1; CD34 ANTIGEN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NESTIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAVEOLA; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE CELL; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STROMA CELL; TELOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTIGENS, CD44; CAVEOLAE; CAVEOLIN 1; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SHAPE; CHORIONIC VILLI; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; S100 PROTEINS;

EID: 77958052006     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319467     Document Type: Article

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