Pericyte Biology in Different Organs (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Birbrair, Alexander

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030110932
• Artikelnr.: 56013226

Autorenporträt

Alexander Birbrair received his Bachelor's Biomedical degree from Santa Cruz State University in Brazil. He moved to North Carolina, where he finished his PhD in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Osvaldo Delbono. Then, he joined as a posdoc in Stem Cell Biology at Paul Frenette's laboratory at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. In 2016, he was appointed faculty at Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, where he started his own lab. His laboratory is interested in understanding how the cellular components of different tissues function and control disease progression. His group explores the roles of specific cell populations in the tissue microenvironment by using state-of-the-art techniques. In 2018, Alexander was elected affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC). 

Inhaltsangabe

Pericytes in the retina.- Pancreatic pericytes in glucose homeostasis and diabetes.- Pericytes in the lung.- Pericytes in the skeletal muscle.- Pericytes in the gut.- Pericytes in the bone marrow .- Cochlear Capillary Pericytes.- Pericytes in the placenta: role in placental development and homeostasis.- Pericytes in the liver.- Pericytes in the Periodontal Ligament.- Pericytes in the heart.- Pericytes in the Umbilical Cord.- The pluripotent microvascular pericytes are the adult stem cells even in the testis.- Index .