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Re-expression of intermediate filament nestin in adult tissues

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2006

Abstract

Nestin is expressed in rat and human brain and muscle tissue as well as in blood vessels during development. Atlhough its expression disappears in mature tissues, it re-appears if production of new cells in these tissues in initiated, e.g. in brain tumours or heart infarctions.