Culture of rat endometrial telocytes

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1392-1396

  Hatta, Kota ^a,b   Huang, Ming Li ^c   Weisel, Richard D ^a,b   Li, Ren Ke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Endometrium; Filopodia; Stromal cells; Telocytes

Indexed keywords

VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VIMENTIN; YOUNG ADULT;

RATTUS;

EID: 84863098322     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01583.x     Document Type: Article

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