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Myocardial telocytes: a specific new cellular entity
1 Jul 2010
Abstract excerpt
The existence of a new type of interstitial cells in the heart namely, interstitial Cajal-like cells (ICLC), has been described for the first time by Hinescu and Popescu in 2005. This study was then followed by an ascending trend of publications regarding the morphology, phenotype and distribution of myocardial ICLC in diverse species including human patients. Recently the new term 'telocytes' has been proposed...
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