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...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
