Sentences with phrase «structural fibroblast cells»

Instead of dispensing ink, Organovo's bioprinter uses two robotic tips to deposit globs of cells — in this case, endothelial cells that line blood - vessel walls, smooth muscle cells that regulate vessel dilation and contraction, and structural fibroblast cells.

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The team studied skin cells, called dermal fibroblasts, that help hair follicles develop, wounds heal, and generally maintain the structural integrity of skin.

In research published in the current issue of Cell, scientists in the laboratory of GICD director Deepak Srivastava, MD, directly reprogrammed structural cells called fibroblasts in the heart to become beating heart cells called cardiomyocytes.

The heart is made up predominantly of two types of cells, Genin says: the fibroblasts, which maintain the collagen and other structural proteins within the heart, and the cardiomyocytes, which do the pumping.