Age-related changes in the temporal and spatial distributions of fibrillin and elastin mRNAs and proteins in acute cutaneous wounds of healthy humans

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 80-89

  Ashcroft, Gillian S ^a,b   Kielty, Cay M ^a   Horan, Michael A ^b   Ferguson, Mark W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Elastin; Fibrillin; Immunocytochemistry; in situ hybridization; Skin; Wound repair

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMOEPIDERMAL JUNCTION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INJURY; WOUND HEALING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030812869     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199709)183:1<80::AID-PATH1104>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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