c-Kit immunoexpression delineates a putative endothelial progenitor cell population in developing human lungs

American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Volumn 306, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Suzuki, Takaya ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^b   Fujino, Naoya ^c   Ota, Chiharu ^c   Yamada, Mitsuhiro ^c   Suzuki, Takashi ^c   Yamaya, Mutsuo ^c   Kondo, Takashi ^a   Kubo, Hiroshi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Lung development

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ANGIOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; C KIT PROTEIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; LIGAND; PROTEIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; FETUS LUNG; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CAPILLARY; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MESENCHYME; MESENCHYME CELL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

C-KIT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84900546877     PISSN: 10400605     EISSN: 15221504     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00211.2013     Document Type: Article

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