• Capillary Pericytes Express Α-Smooth Muscle Actin, Which Requires Prevention of Filamentous-Actin Depolymerization For Detection 

      Alarcon-Martinez, Luis; Yılmaz-Özcan, Sinem; Yemişçi, Müge; Schallek, Jesse; Kılıç, Kıvılcım; Can, Alp; Di Polo, Adriana; Dalkara, Turgay (eLife Sciences, 2018)
      Recent evidence suggests that capillary pericytes are contractile and play a crucial role in the regulation of microcirculation. However, failure to detect components of the contractile apparatus in capillary pericytes, ...
    • What is a Pericyte? 

      Mishra, Anusha; Attwell, David; Hall, Catherine N.; O'Farrell, Fergus; Dalkara, Turgay (International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2016)
      Pericytes, spatially-isolated contractile cells on capillaries, have been reported to control cerebral blood flow physiologically, and to limit blood flow after ischaemia by constricting capillaries and then dying. ...