ArticleCell and tissue research2011
Telocytes in pleura: two- and three-dimensional imaging by transmission electron microscopy.
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- Telocytes: history, origin, identification, structure, distribution, and functions.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2025Review
- Elucidating the preventive and therapeutic effects of cardiac telocytes paracrine microRNAs on ischemic heart disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- Telocytes promote hepatocellular carcinoma by activating the ERK signaling pathway and miR-942-3p/MMP9 axis.Cell death discovery · 2021Article
- Ultrastructural evidence for telocytes in equine tendon.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Morpho-functional changes of cardiac telocytes in isolated atrial amyloidosis in patients with atrial fibrillation.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Exosomes derived from cardiac progenitor cells attenuate CVB3-induced apoptosis via abrogating the proliferation of CVB3 and modulating the mTOR signaling pathways.Cell death & disease · 2019Article
- Expression of toll-like receptors and their regulatory roles in murine cardiac telocytes.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2019Article
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- Recently Discovered Interstitial Cell Population of Telocytes: Distinguishing Facts from Fiction Regarding Their Role in the Pathogenesis of Diverse Diseases Called "Telocytopathies".Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
- Telocytes are the physiological counterpart of inflammatory fibroid polyps and PDGFRA-mutant GISTs.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2018Article
- Cardiac progenitor cell‑derived exosomes promote H9C2 cell growth via Akt/mTOR activation.International journal of molecular medicine · 2018Article
- Cellular Evidence of Telocytes as Novel Interstitial Cells Within the Magnum of Chicken Oviduct.Cell transplantation · 2017Article
- Telocytes in pancreas of the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus).Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2016Article
- Telocytes in gastric lamina propria of the Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Upregulation of ULK1 expression in PC-3 cells following tumor protein P53 transfection by sonoporation.Oncology letters · 2016Article
- In vitro morphology, viability and cytokine secretion of uterine telocyte-activated mouse peritoneal macrophages.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2015Article
- The failing human heart is characterized by decreased numbers of telocytes as result of apoptosis and altered extracellular matrix composition.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2015Article
- Global comparison of chromosome X genes of pulmonary telocytes with mesenchymal stem cells, fibroblasts, alveolar type II cells, airway epithelial cells, and lymphocytes.Journal of translational medicine · 2015Article
- Telocytes in regenerative medicine.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2015Review
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Abstract
Information about the ultrastructure of connective (interstitial) cells supporting the pleural mesothelium is scarce. Our aim has been to examine whether telocytes (TCs) are present in pleura, as in epicardium and mesentery. TCs are a distinct type of cell, characterized by specific prolongations named telopodes (Tp). We have used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron tomography (ET) to determine whether ultrastructural diagnostic criteria accepted for TCs are fulfilled by any of the cell subpopulations existing in the sub-mesothelial layer in mouse and human pleura. TCs have been identified with TEM by their characteristic prolongations. Tp appear long and moniliform, because of the alternation of podomeres (thin segments of less than 0.2 μm) and podoms (small dilations accommodating caveolae, mitochondria, and endoplasmic reticulum). Tp ramifications follow a dichotomic pattern and establish specialized cell-to-cell junctional complexes. TCs, via their Tp, seem to form an interstitial network beneath the mesothelium, covering about two-thirds of the abluminal mesothelial layer. ET has revealed complex junctional structures and tight junctions connecting pleural TCs, and small vesicles at this level in Tp. Thus, pleural TCs share significant similarities with TCs described in other serosae. Whether TCs are a (major) player in mesothelial-cell-induced tissue repair remains to be established. Nevertheless, the extremely long thin Tp and complex junctional structures that they form and the release of vesicles (or exosomes) indicate the participation of TCs in long-distance homo- or heterocellular communication.
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