Immunohistochemical, morphological and ultrastructural resemblance between dendritic cells and folliculo-stellate cells in normal human and rat anterior pituitaries

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-29

  Allaerts, Wilfried ^a   Fluitsma, Donna M ^b   Hoefsmit, Elisabeth C M ^b   Jeucken, Pieter H M ^a   Morreau, Hans ^a   Bosman, Fred T ^a   Drexhage, Hemmo A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary; Dendritic cells; Folliculo stellate cells; Immuno electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROTEIN S 100;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPY; MONOCYTE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 0030034815     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.1996.tb00682.x     Document Type: Article

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