Mesangial cells are specialised cells in the kidney that make up the mesangium of the glomerulus. Together with the mesangial matrix, they form the vascular...

Extraglomerular mesangial cells (also known as Lacis cells, Polkissen cells, or Goormaghtigh cells) are light-staining pericytes in the kidney found outside...

Intraglomerular mesangial cells are mesangial cells located among the glomerular capillaries within a renal corpuscle of a kidney. Mesangial cells are macrophages...

Mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (MesPGN) is a morphological pattern characterized by a numerical increase in mesangial cells and expansion...

filtering capillaries of the glomerular tuft, which also contains mesangial cells supporting these capillaries. These components function as the filtration...

tubule begins juxtaglomerular cells, (also known as granular cells) which secrete renin extraglomerular mesangial cells The juxtaglomerular apparatus...

(the space between the blood vessels), composed of intraglomerular mesangial cells. The blood is filtered across the capillary walls of this tuft through...

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in tubular fluid. Together, juxtaglomerular cells, extraglomerular mesangial cells and macula densa cells comprise the juxtaglomerular apparatus. In appropriately...

The list of human cell types provides an enumeration and description of the various specialized cells found within the human body, highlighting their...

cell (PEC) Podocyte Angioblast → Endothelial cell Mesangial cell Intraglomerular Extraglomerular Juxtaglomerular cell Macula densa cell Stromal cell →...

membranes of the podocytes, an increase in the number of mesangial cells, and an increase in mesangial matrix. This matrix invades the glomerular capillaries...

pigment epithelium, hepatocytes, mesangial cells of the kidney, endometrial cells, cervical cells, and vaginal epithelial cells. In these tissues, hemoglobin...

diapedesis takes place), renal glomerular mesangial cells, circulating metastatic melanoma cells, follicular dendritic cells (FDC), a fraction of fibroblasts and...

microscopy (LM) on a renal sample reveals variable degrees of mesangial cell proliferation or mesangial sclerosis from minute alterations. A small number of instances...

Hubchak SC, Poncelet AC (2003). "TGF-beta signal transduction and mesangial cell fibrogenesis". Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. 284 (2): F243–52. doi:10...

immune system that consists of the phagocytic cells located in reticular connective tissue. The cells are primarily monocytes and macrophages, and they...

the urine. At the same time, reactive changes, e.g. proliferation of mesangial cells,[which?] may result in a decrease in kidney blood flow, resulting in...

containing two cell types. Endothelial cells, which have large fenestrae, are not covered by diaphragms. Mesangial cells are modified smooth muscle cells that lie...

primarily secreted by CD4+ T helper 1 (Th1) cells, natural killer (NK) cells, and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. The expression of type II IFN is upregulated...

addition, the glomeruli of the kidneys contain smooth muscle-like cells called mesangial cells. Cardiac muscle is involuntary, striated muscle that is found...

(November 2001). "Bacitracin inhibits fibronectin matrix assembly by mesangial cells in high glucose". Kidney International. 60 (5): 1756–64. doi:10.1046/j...

macrophages, tissue histiocytes, Kupffler Hepatic macrophages, Glomerular Mesangial Proliferation and unnamed Splenic expression of wandering macrophages...

identifies cell surface antigens. CD34 was first described on hematopoietic stem cells independently by Civin et al. and Tindle et al. as a cell surface...

chains to accumulate in the affected tissues' basement membranes. The mesangial cell is also thought to play a role in the pathogenesis of LCDD. A number...

stimulation of PKC-beta activity is linked to increased collagen IV in mesangial cells". The American Journal of Physiology. 276 (5 Pt 2): F684–90. doi:10...

regulates interactions between physically adjacent cells. In Drosophila, notch interaction with its cell-bound ligands (delta, serrate) establishes an intercellular...

1983.119. PMID 6353041. Schlondorff D (October 1987). "The glomerular mesangial cell: an expanding role for a specialized pericyte". The FASEB Journal. 1...

development and function of mesodermal tissues, e.g., blood cells, connective tissue, and mesangial cells. Somatic mutations that cause the fusion of the PDGFRA...

"Regulation and action of early growth response 1 in bovine granulosa cells". Reproduction. 154 (4): 547–557. doi:10.1530/REP-17-0243. PMID 28733346...