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Definition of Fibroblasts
1. fibroblast [n] - See also: fibroblast
Medical Definition of Fibroblasts
1. Connective tissue cells which differentiate into chondroblasts, collagenoblasts, and osteoblasts. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibroblasts
Literary usage of Fibroblasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Thus, in spite of the clinical differences between Scheie and Hurler patients,
their fibroblasts share a deficiency of the same corrective factor. Table 1. ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1922)
"It has been shown that the inhibiting action of homogenic serum on the growth of
a pure culture of chicken fibroblasts is directly proportional to the age ..."
3. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1901)
"In the periphery there were layers of fibroblastic- fibrillar or of dense fibrous
tissue; fibroblasts producing bands of hyaline material. ..."
4. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the Second Nimh Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"... Regulation of Mouse c-fos Expression and AP-1 Activity Mediated by a Transiently
Expressed GABAA Receptor in Mouse fibroblasts L. ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The purpose of these experiments was to study the effect of serum inactivated by
shaking, on the growth of fibroblasts. Serum was obtained from the plasma ..."
6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The successful application of BUdR is also based upon the property of the
fibroblasts to proliferate more rapidly than do the endocrine cells. ..."
7. Protozoa and Disease by James Jackson Clarke (1908)
"TYPES OF NUCLEI IN fibroblasts. (From a Biondi-stained section of rabbit's tendon.
Camera drawing, x 800 diameters. ..."
8. Modern Surgery: General and Operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1907)
"The osteoblasts in the medullary tissue and in the deeper layers of the periosteum
multiply and are distributed through the mass of fibroblasts. ..."
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