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Gastrointestinal Fibroblasts Have Specialized, Diverse Transcriptional Phenotypes: A Comprehensive Gene Expression Analysis of Human Fibroblasts.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Higuchi Youichi, Kojima Motohiro, Ishii Genichiro, Aoyagi Kazuhiko, Sasaki Hiroki, Ochiai Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Fibroblasts are the principal stromal cells that exist in whole organs and play vital roles in many biological processes. Although the functional diversity of fibroblasts has been estimated, a comprehensive analysis of fibroblasts from the whole body has not been performed and their transcriptional diversity has not been sufficiently explored. The aim of this study was to elucidate the transcriptional...
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