Role of the pericyte in wound healing: an ultrastructural study

DJ Crocker, TM Murad, JC Geer - Experimental and molecular pathology, 1970 - Elsevier
Mesenchymal cells present in early wounds were divided into two groups: primitive
mesenchymal cells and macrophages. Primitive mesenchymal cells appeared to become
incorporated in the thick basement membrane of recently formed capillaries, and they also
appeared to differentiate into fibroblasts. After becoming encased in vascular basement
membrane these cells, pericytes, featured areas of cytoplasmic contact with underlying
endothelium. It is proposed that the pericyte-endothelial “contacts” act as a regulatory …