Lack of intestinal pacemaker (C-KIT-positive) cells in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 96-99

  Yamataka, Atsuyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Toshio ^b   Kato, Yoshifumi ^b   Okazaki, Tadaharu ^b   Sunagawa, Masakatsu ^b   Miyano, Takeshi ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

c kit; immunohistochemistry; Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis; intestinal pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ONCOPROTEIN;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEWBORN; PACEMAKER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 0030020977     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(96)90327-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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