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Cells > Connective Tissue Cells > Fibroblasts > Myofibroblasts
Cells > Muscle Cells > Myocytes, Smooth Muscle > Myofibroblasts

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Myofibroblasts  

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Scope note

  • Spindle-shaped cells with characteristic CONTRACTILE PROTEINS and structures that contribute to the WOUND HEALING process. They occur in GRANULATION TISSUE and also in pathological processes such as FIBROSIS.

History note

  • 2011

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D058628

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