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BMPC-rich elutriation fractions cultured in complete medium supported growth of fibroblasts (spindle-shaped cells stained by antibodies to vitronectin and type I collagen).
SDF-1 is a potent CXCα chemokine produced by bone-marrow spindle-shaped stromal cells and other cells of mesenchymal origin, but not blood leukocytes [ 12, 13].
Neurobiologist John Allman (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States) and his collaborators, for instance, have discovered that a special type of large spindle-shaped neuron, first described in the early 20th century by Constantin von Economo, is unique to apes and humans and much more numerous in the latter.
Interestingly, keloids in some Caucasian patients were found to contain α-SMA positive fibroblasts [ 52 ] . Many of the α-SMA positive cells were spindle-shaped, which suggests that these cells experienced outside tension.
090 g/ml) and culture in carefully selected 10% FCS resulted in a homogeneous population of spindle-shaped fibroblast cells.