Decoding telocytes

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 913, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-39

  Xiao, Junjie ^a   Bei, Yihua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gene; Interstitial cells; MicroRNA; Proteome; Secretome; Telocytes; Telopodes

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 133A; MICRORNA 193; MICRORNA 199A 5P; MICRORNA 208A; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 29; PROTEOME; SECRETOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELOCYTE; TELOPODE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BIOMARKERS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICE; MICRORNAS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; PROTEOME; RECEPTOR, PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; STAINING AND LABELING; TELOCYTES;

EID: 84994381383     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1061-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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