A cellular regulator of the niche: telocyte.
Sena BabadagBetül Çelebi-SaltikPublished in: Tissue barriers (2022)
Interstitial cells are present in the environment of stem cells in order to increase stem cell proliferation and differentiation and they are important to increase the efficiency of their transplantation. Telocytes (TCs) play an important role both in the preservation of tissue organ integrity and in the pathophysiology of many diseases, especially cancer. They make homo- or heterocellular contacts to form the structure of 3D network through their telopodes and deliver signaling molecules via a juxtacrine and/or paracrine association by budding shed vesicles into the vascular, nervous and endocrine systems. During this interaction, along with organelles, mRNA, microRNA, long non-coding RNA, and genomic DNA are transferred. This review article not only specifies the properties of TCs and their roles in the tissue organ microenvironment but also gives information about the factors that play a role in the transport of epigenetic information by TCs.
Keyphrases
- long non coding rna
- stem cells
- cell proliferation
- poor prognosis
- induced apoptosis
- dna methylation
- cell cycle arrest
- gene expression
- cell therapy
- papillary thyroid
- circulating tumor
- transcription factor
- pi k akt
- copy number
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- mesenchymal stem cells
- young adults
- binding protein
- signaling pathway
- lymph node metastasis