Potential significance of telocytes in the pathogenesis of lung diseases

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-49

  Zheng, Yonghua ^a   Bai, Chunxue ^a   Wang, Xiangdong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Interstitial cells; Lung; Pathogenesis; Telocytes; Telopodes

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL; BRONCHIOLE; CARTILAGE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STEM CELL; STROMA CELL; TELOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84863036422     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.11.91     Document Type: Review

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