Extracellular Space

"Extracellular Space" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Interstitial space between cells, occupied by INTERSTITIAL FLUID as well as amorphous and fibrous substances. For organisms with a CELL WALL, the extracellular space includes everything outside of the CELL MEMBRANE including the PERIPLASM and the cell wall.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Extracellular Space" by people in this website by year, and whether "Extracellular Space" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1997 and 1998 and 1999 and 2000 and 2002 and 2005 and 2007 and 2008 and 2010 and 2013 and 2014 and 2016 and 2018
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