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Isolation, culture, purification and ultrastructural investigation of cardiac telocytes.
Molecular medicine reports - 1 Aug 2016
Li Yan-Yan, Zhang Song, Li Yi-Gang, Wang Yan
Abstract excerpt
Telocytes (TCs), a novel type of stromal cells, are crucial to cardiac renovation and regeneration. To dissect the pathophysiological effects of cardiac TCs in heart disease, it is essential to develop an effective method to isolate, culture, purify and characterize these cells. In the present study, cardiac TCs were isolated from the hearts of rats by enzymatic digestion. Histology and CD34/PDGFRα expression by...
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