What is a pericyte?

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 451-455

  Attwell, David ^a   Mishra, Anusha ^a   Hall, Catherine N ^b   O'Farrell, Fergus M ^a   Dalkara, Turgay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

blood brain barrier; capillary; cerebral blood flow; Pericyte; stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERICYTE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CAPILLARY; CYTOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PERICYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; PERICYTES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84961355183     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0271678X15610340     Document Type: Article

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