Telocytes, exosomes, gap junctions and the cytoskeleton: The makings of a primitive nervous system?

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Smythies, John ^a   Edelstein, Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Medimark Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Exosomes; Gap junctions; Homeostasis; Signaling; Stem cells; Telocytes

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 193; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL TRANSPORT; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EXOSOME; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MICROTUBULE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL STEM CELL; SCHWANN CELL; STROMA CELL; TELOCYTE; TELOPODE;

EID: 84892174203     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00278     Document Type: Article

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