Article
Studies of mesenchymal cells from 1st trimester human placenta: expression of cytokeratin outside the trophoblast lineage.
Placenta - 1 Nov 1999
Haigh T, Chen C, Jones C J, Aplin J D
Abstract excerpt
A fibroblast cell strain that expressed cytokeratins 8 and 18 was isolated from explanted first trimester placenta. Its properties were consistent with an origin in the villous fibroblast-myofibroblast lineage, including expression of vimentin, smooth muscle alpha-actin and fibroblast surface protein. The cells grew rapidly in vitro, and exhibited tightly aligned bipolar morphology at confluence, absence of...
Topics
- Biomarkers
- Cell Lineage
- Cells, Cultured
- Chorionic Villi Sampling
- Cytoskeleton
- Female
- Fibroblasts
- Humans
- Keratins
- Mesoderm
- Phenotype
- Placenta
