Telocytes in the interstitium of human exocrine pancreas: Ultrastructural evidence

Pancreas

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 949-956

  Nicolescu, Mihnea I ^a,b   Popescu, Laurentiu M ^a,c  

^a VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

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

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

exosomes; interstitial cells; shed microvesicles; stromal synapse; telocytes, telopodes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC TELOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA CELL; SYNAPSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL SIZE; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MULTIVESICULAR BODIES; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84861558630     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: 15364828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e31823fbded     Document Type: Article

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