Telocytes

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 481-489

  Pellegrini, Maria Simonetta Faussone ^a   Popescu, Laureñtiu M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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

^c VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

fibroblasts; interstitial Cajal like cells (ICLC); interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC); mesenchymal cells; telopodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916888380     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMC.2011.039     Document Type: Review

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