Relationships between telocytes and cardiomyocytes during pre- and post-natal life

Evidence has been given that the adult heart contains a specific population of stromal cells lying in close spatial relationship with cardiomyocytes and with cardiac stem cells in sub-epicardial cardiogenic niches. Recently termed ‘telocytes’ because of their long cytoplasmic processes embracing the...

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Main Authors: Faussone-Pellegrini, Maria-Simonetta, Bani, D
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3822741/