Pancreatic stellate cells: Small cells with a big role in tissue homeostasis

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-7

  Means, Anna L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; LAMININ;

ACINAR CELL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; CROSS LINKING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LAMINA PROPRIA; MESENCHYME CELL; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREATIC STELLATE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD29; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; MALE; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE;

EID: 84871779201     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2012.161     Document Type: Review

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