| 31. | Of course, fibroblasts are not supposed to turn into bone or cartilage.
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| 32. | His work with fibroblasts began in the late 1980s.
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| 33. | They began with fibroblasts, or fetal skin and connective-tissue cells.
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| 34. | Fibroblasts are morphologically heterogeneous with diverse appearances depending on their location and activity.
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| 35. | Like other cells of connective tissue, fibroblasts are derived from primitive mesenchyme.
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| 36. | Pre-adipocytes are undifferentiated fibroblasts that can be stimulated to form adipocytes.
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| 37. | Fibroblasts also secrete growth factors that attract epithelial cells to the wound site.
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| 38. | Second, there is cellular differentiation of mesenchymal cells into osteoblasts or fibroblasts.
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| 39. | The surrounding stromal cells ( fibroblasts ) also proliferate.
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| 40. | Gene mutations in PHEX prevent it from correctly regulating fibroblast growth factor 23.
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