Telocytes in the reproductive organs: Current understanding and future challenges

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2016, Pages 40-49

  Cretoiu, Dragos ^a,b   Cretoiu, Sanda Maria ^a,b  

^a VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

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

Author keywords

Fallopian tube; Mammary gland; Placenta; Telocytes; Telopodes; Uterus

Indexed keywords

SECRETORY PROTEIN;

CANCER INHIBITION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; ENDOCRINE GLAND; EXOSOME; FALLOPIAN TUBE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; LIVER CELL; MAMMARY GLAND; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TELOCYTE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERUS; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; GENITAL SYSTEM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; GENITALIA; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOMICS; TELOCYTES;

EID: 84961905704     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2016.03.018     Document Type: Review

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