fibroblast
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Collagen and many other proteins produced by these fibroblast cells accumulate outside of the vascular cells and eventually lead to fibrosis or scarring in the eye.
From Science Daily • May 2, 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
Skin cells are very good for this endeavour, particularly a type of connective tissue cell called a fibroblast.
From BBC • May 19, 2022
Just like T cells engineered outside the body in traditional CAR-T therapy, they use the mRNA instructions to become primed to target and kill the fibroblast cells displaying FAP.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 5, 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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