Telocytes and their extracellular vesicles—Evidence and hypotheses

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Cretoiu, Dragos ^a,b   Xu, Jiahong ^c   Xiao, Junjie ^d   Cretoiu, Sanda M ^a,b  

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

^b VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ectosomes; Exosomes; Extracellular vesicles; Telocytes; Telopodes

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; EXOSOME; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; SCIENTIST; TELOCYTE; TELOPODE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EXOSOMES; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; TELOCYTES;

EID: 84982191347     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17081322     Document Type: Review

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