Human myometrium - the ultrastructural 3D network of telocytes

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2844-2849

  Creţoiu, Sanda M ^a,b   Creţoiu, Dragos ^a,b   Popescu, Laurentiu M ^b  

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

^b VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Extracellular vesicles; Human uterus; Podomers; Podoms; Telocytes; Telopodes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CELL; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE CELLS; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84868156544     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01651.x     Document Type: Article

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