fibroblast
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The process by which lung injury either leads to healing or fibrosis relies in part on what happens to a cell called a fibroblast, which forms connective tissue.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
So Saucerman and his colleagues developed a new approach called "logic-based mechanistic machine learning" that not only predicts drugs but also predicts how they affect fibroblast behaviors.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
To generate data to train their model, the researchers treated mouse fibroblast cells, a type of skin cell, with factors that reprogram the cells to become pluripotent stem cells.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024
The principal cell of connective tissues is the fibroblast.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
As you might expect, a fibrocyte, a less active form of fibroblast, is the second most common cell type in connective tissue proper.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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