Simultaneous ultrastructural identification of growth hormone and its messenger ribonucleic acid using combined immunohistochemistry and non-radioisotopic in situ hybridization: A technical note

Histochemical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 703-707

  Matsuno, Akira ^a,b   Utsunomiya, Hirotoshi ^b   Ohsugi, Yoshitaka ^c   Takekoshi, Susumu ^b   Sanno, Naoko ^b   Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^b   Nagao, Koichi ^a   Tamura, Akira ^d   Nagashima, Tadashi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029823171     PISSN: 00182214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02409007     Document Type: Article

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