Pericytes: Multitasking cells in the regeneration of injured, diseased, and aged skeletal muscle

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Birbrair, Alexander ^a   Zhang, Tan ^a   Wang, Zhong Min ^a   Messi, Maria L ^a   Mintz, Akiva ^a   Delbono, Osvaldo ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Angiogenesis; Fat formation; Fibrous tissue; Innervation; Pericytes; Regeneration; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BLOOD VESSEL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE STEM CELL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOFIBROSIS; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PERICYTE; REVIEW; SARCOPENIA; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 84907147584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00245     Document Type: Review

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