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Juxtacerebral Tissue Regeneration Potential: Telocytes Contribution

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 913))

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It is well proved already that neurogenesis does take place in mammals’ brain, including human brain. However, neurogenesis by itself is not able to compensate for brain tissue loss in serious neurological diseases, such as stroke, brain trauma or neurodegenerative disorders. Recent evidences show that neural stem cell niches are present not only in classical locations, such as subventricularor subgranular zones, but in other areas as well, including tissues contiguous to the brain (meninges and choroid plexus).In this chapter we revise the relationship of neural stem cells with interstitial cells (mainly telocytes), which we think is significant, and we describe what is known about the juxtacerebral tissue neurogenesis potential.

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Acknowledgments

We do thank Dr. Mihaela Gherghiceanu for providing us the EM figures and for the fruitful discussions and advice.

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  1. Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Histology, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Laura Cristina Ceafalan

  2. Department of Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, ‘Victor Babeș’ National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania

    Laura Cristina Ceafalan & Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu

  3. Department of Neurology, Colentina Clinical Hospital, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu

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  1. Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University Medical School, Shanghai, China

    Xiangdong Wang

  2. Department of Cellular and Molecular Med, Carol Davila Univ of Medicine&Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

    Dragos Cretoiu

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Ceafalan, L.C., Popescu, B.O. (2016). Juxtacerebral Tissue Regeneration Potential: Telocytes Contribution. In: Wang, X., Cretoiu, D. (eds) Telocytes. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 913. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1061-3_25

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