Elastic fiber during development and aging

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 428-435

  Pasquali Ronchetti, I ^a,b   Baccaeani Contri, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Section of General Pathology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elastic fibers in skin; Elastic fibrogenesis; Elastin synthesis and secretion; Pathology; Quantitative analysis; Structural organization

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELASTICITY; FIBERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULES; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHATASES;

BRANCHED FIBERS; CROSSLINKED; DESMOSINES; ELASTIC FIBER IN SKIN; ELASTIC FIBRES; ELASTIC FIBROGENESIS; ELASTIN SYNTHESIS AND SECRETION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBROGENESIS; STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION;

ELASTIN;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BIGLYCAN; DECORIN; ELASTIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; OSTEONECTIN; OSTEOPONTIN; VITRONECTIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; DERMIS; DEVELOPMENT; ELASTIC FIBER; FIBROGENESIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 0030819919     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19970815)38:4<428::AID-JEMT10>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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