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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Intraglomerular mesangial cell Extraglomerular mesangial cell Juxtaglomerular cell Kidney proximal tubule brush border cell Loop of Henle thin segment cell Thick...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

on the surface of certain cells – including, among others, B lymphocytes, follicular dendritic cells, natural killer cells, macrophages, neutrophils,...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

MP) are a type of white blood cell of the innate immune system that engulf and digest pathogens, such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris and...

capsule are capable of binding to receptors on endothelial and mesangial cells and to the mesangial matrix. Activation of RAGE induces production of a variety...

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

Sahai A (April 2001). "Hypoxia and high glucose cause exaggerated mesangial cell growth and collagen synthesis: role of osteopontin". American Journal...

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...

maintained by podocyte cells. The glomerular basement membrane contains three layers: The glomerular membrane consists of mesangial cells, modified pericytes...

endothelial cells. Angiotensin II is the major bioactive product of the renin–angiotensin system, binding to receptors on intraglomerular mesangial cells, causing...