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Numerous collagen fibers, fibrocytes, some muscle fibers, and hemocytes were observed in the connective tissue layer (Figs. When there is tissue damage, fibrocytes are transformed into fibroblasts, which contains large amounts of organelles, which are necessary for the synthesis and excretion of proteins needed to repair the damaged tissue. Richard Bucala at the Picower Institute in Manhasset New York and also published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 1997), fibrocytes have been shown to be as potent as dendritic cells in generating immune responses to native T-cells, the standard for designation of "professional antigen presenting cell". |
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