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Bottom-up assembly of salivary gland microtissues for assessing myoepithelial cell function.
Biomaterials - 1 Oct 2017
Ozdemir Tugba, Srinivasan Padma Pradeepa, Zakheim Daniel R, Harrington Daniel A, Witt Robert L, Farach-Carson Mary C, Jia Xinqiao, Pradhan-Bhatt Swati
Abstract excerpt
Myoepithelial cells are flat, stellate cells present in exocrine tissues including the salivary glands. While myoepithelial cells have been studied extensively in mammary and lacrimal gland tissues, less is known of the function of myoepithelial cells derived from human salivary glands. Several groups have isolated tumorigenic myoepithelial cells from cancer specimens, however, only one report has demonstrated...
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