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Cardiac fibroblasts in cell culture systems: myofibroblasts all along?
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology - 1 Apr 2011
Rohr Stephan
Abstract excerpt
The cytoarchitecture of the working myocardium is characterized by densely packed cardiomyocytes that are embedded in a three-dimensional network of numerous fibroblasts. Although the importance of cardiac fibroblasts in maintaining an orderly structured extracellular matrix is well recognized, less is known about their potential paracrine and electrotonic interactions with cardiomyocytes. This is partly the...
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