fibromodulin |
fibromuscular stromal cells |
a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motif-10 |
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[fibromuscular cell]
This term is used frequently for the stromal mesenchymal cells of the prostate and bladder and refers to the spindle cells surrounding prostate ducts and glands. These cells resemble smooth muscle cells or fibrocytes in appearance but may have a distinct gene expression pattern (Oudes et al, 2006; Liu and True, 2002; Goo et al, 2005). Stromal fibromuscular cells associated with primary prostate cancer differ from stromal cells in benign prostate tissue by an increased level of expression of the cell activation molecule CD90 (Liu et al, 2004). Young et al (2005) have reported expression profiles of stromal mesenchymal cells of the human
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