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Descriptor English: Pericytes
Descriptor Spanish: Pericitos
Descriptor pericitos
Entry term(s) células de Rouget
Scope note: Células elongadas, características, con múltiples prolongaciones que se extienden alrededor de los capilares, rodeando la pared vascular, denominadas también células murales. Los pericitos están en íntima relación con la MEMBRANA BASAL, que comparten con las CÉLULAS ENDOTELIALES vasculares. Los pericitos son importantes para mantener la integridad de los vasos, en la angiogénesis y para el remodelamiento vascular.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pericitos
Descriptor French: Péricytes
Entry term(s): Cellules de Rouget
Péricyte
Tree number(s): A07.015.700.750
A10.272.491.677
A11.710
A16.504.660.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020286
Scope note: Unique slender cells with multiple processes extending along the capillary vessel axis and encircling the vascular wall, also called mural cells. Pericytes are imbedded in the BASEMENT MEMBRANE shared with the ENDOTHELIAL CELLS of the vessel. Pericytes are important in maintaining vessel integrity, angiogenesis, and vascular remodeling.
Allowable Qualifiers: CH composition chimique
CL classification
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
EN enzymologie
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie
DeCS ID: 33678
Unique ID: D020286
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Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/10
Revision Date: 2018/07/01
Péricytes - Preferred
Concept UI M0029935
Preferred term Péricytes
Entry term(s) Cellules de Rouget
Péricyte



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