Fibroblasts

... by it. E.g. uninvolved T-cells or B-cells through cytokine secretion. Is this correct? Does somebody have a more accurate deffinition? Can fibroblasts be called bystander cells in terms of vaccination? I also found the term: Bystander effect. Does this mean the effect of the process on ...

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... someone here might have an insight. I'd like to know what the absolute, or relative, abundance of cholesterol is in ECs compared with SMC and fibroblasts. There are ways to measure it, but I'm not having any luck with my specific question. My guess is that there are those out there working ...

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Hey all, I really need some help. Recently, I have been transfecting Mouse embryonic fibroblasts with MEFs and in the past I haven't had any significant problems, but this time for some reason, after the transfection is done and I change the media, next day, they ...

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... patients. People are trying, but you can’t do that sort of thing (yet) with an organ like the liver or kidney. Skin cells (well, specifically fibroblasts) are a reasonably homogeneous population of cells compared to “liver” or “kidney” cells. Part of the normal function of fibroblasts is to ...

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... their efficacy. I’m strictly a Ca-induced-transfections-into-bacteria kind of person, although I know that the same (Ca-induced) method works for fibroblasts, at least.

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