Nozawa-Inoue Kayoko, Suzuki Akiko, Niwano Masahiro, Kawano Yoshiro, Maeda Takeyasu
Division of Oral Anatomy, Department of Oral Biological Science, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2007 Mar;290(3):238-42. doi: 10.1002/ar.20506.
The present study revealed that the fibroblast-like type B synoviocytes (covering the surface of the synovial membrane in the rat temporomandibular joint) had muscle-specific caveolin-3 protein in their caveolae. The existence of two kinds of type B synoviocytes (with and without caveolin-3-immunoreactions even in the synovial lining layer) might reflect the functional difference between them.
