CD34(+) stromal cells |
CD34(+) undifferentiated smooth-muscle cells |
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[CD34(+) stromal fibroblastic/fibrocytic cell]
abbr. CD34(+) SFCs. This collective term (Díaz-Flores, 2014) refers to a specific type of connective tissue cell, a subset of fibroblasts located in both perivascular and stromal positions in the connective tissue of multiple anatomical sites.
These cells display an oval nucleus and slender, elongated bipolar or multipolar processes and, in addition to having the general functions of fibroblasts, behave as native mesenchymal stem cell progenitor cells (after losing CD34 expression). They have been reported under a plethora of names (for detailed references see: Díaz-Flores, 2014), including
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