Smooth muscles are complex tissues containing a variety of cells in addition to muscle cells.
Interstitial cells of mesenchymal origin interact with and form electrical connectivity with …

Telocytes (TCs) are a novel interstitial (stromal) cell type described in many tissues and
organs (www. telocytes. com). A TC is characterized by a small cell body (9–15 μm) and a …

Promotion of cardiac angiogenesis in ischemic myocardium is a critical strategy for repairing
and regenerating the myocardium after myocardial infarction (MI). Currently, effective …

Ramon y Cajal discovered a particular cell type in the gut, which he named 'interstitial
neurons' more that 100 years ago. In the early 1970s, electron microscopy/electron …

Telocytes (TCs) have been described in various organs and species (www. telocytes. com)
as cells with telopodes (Tps)–very long cellular extensions with an alternation of thin …

Pregnancy is established during the periconceptional period as a continuum beginning with
blastocyst attachment to the endometrial epithelial surface followed by embryo invasion and …

In the last few years, a new cell type–interstitial Cajal-like cell (ICLC)–has been described in
digestive and extra-digestive organs. The name has recently been changed to telocytes (TC) …

Telocytes (TC s), a novel type of interstitial cells, were recently described in the interstitial
space of tissues (www. telocytes. com). Telocytes TC s have several very long, moniliform …

Recently the new term 'telocytes' has been proposed for cells formerly known as interstitial
Cajal‐like cells. In fact, telocytes are not really Cajal‐like cells, they being different from all …

Human labour is an inflammatory event, physiologically driven by an interaction between
hormonal and mechanical factors and pathologically associated with infection, bleeding and …