Telocytes (eBook)

Dr. Xiangdong Wang is a distinguished Professor of Medicine. He is Director of the Shanghai Institute of Clinical Bioinformatics, Executive Director of the Clinical Science Institute at Fudan University Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China; Dr. Dragos Cretoiu is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest.

The History of Telocytes.- Decoding Telocytes.- Extracellular microvesicles (ExMVs) in cell to cell communication - a role of telocytes.- Telocytes in chronic inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.- Telocytes - new players in gallstone disease.- Features of telocytes in agricultural animals.- The subtypes of telocytes.- Telocytes in cardiac tissue architecture and development.- Telocytes - cells with a potential role in Regeneratvie Medicine.- Presence of telocytes in a non-innervated organ: The placenta.- Telocytes in exocrine glands stroma.- Telocyte behaviour during inflammation, repair and tumour stroma formation.- Paracrine signalling in the prostatic stroma: a novel role for the telocytes revealed in rodents’ ventral prostate.- Primary extragastrointestinal stromal tumors in the hepatobiliary tree and telocytes.- Cardiac telocytes in regeneration of myocardial infarction.- Telocytes: a new player in electric circuitry of the heart.- Roles of telocytes in the development of angiogenesis.- Telocytes in inflammatory gynecologic diseases and infertility.- Electrophysiological features of telocytes.- The cutaneous telocytes.- 3D nanostructural reconstruction of telocytes by FIB SEM tomography.- Immunohistochemistry of telocytes in human uterus and fallopian tubes.- A tale of two cells- Telocyte and Stem Cell Unique Relationship (Asked-160110).- Vascular telocytes.- Juxtacerebral tissue regeneration potential – telocytes contribution.- Telocytes of fascial structures.- Hepatic telocytes.