Electron microscopy of human fascia lata: Focus on telocytes

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2500-2506

  Dawidowicz, Joanna ^a   Szotek, Sylwia ^b   Matysiak, Natalia ^c   Mielańczyk, Lłukasz ^c   Maksymowicz, Krzysztof ^d  

^a Veterinary Clinic Brynów   (Poland)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fibroblasts; Human fascia lata; Mast cells; Myofibroblasts; Telocytes; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FASCIA LATA; FIBROBLAST; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MYOFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; STROMA CELL; TELOCYTE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; TELOPODE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FASCIA LATA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; TELOCYTES; TELOPODES;

EID: 84942363613     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.12665     Document Type: Article

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