The maturation of connective tissue involves the organization of collagen fibres by resident fibroblasts. Fibroblast attachment to collagen has been demonstrated to involve cell surface receptors, integrins of the beta 1 family. Integrins are associated with cytoplasmic actin of microfilaments eithe
Effects of decorin on the expression of α-smooth muscle actin in a human myofibroblast cell line
✍ Scribed by Tatsuya Nakatani; Eiko Honda; Sumio Hayakawa; Mayumi Sato; Ken Satoh; Masatoshi Kudo; Hiroshi Munakata
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Volume
- 308
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-8177
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