Immunoelectron microscopical characterization of the epithelioid type of smooth muscle cells in human glomus organs

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 425-430

  Kasper, Michael ^a   Gölfert, Friedemann ^a   Funk, Richard H W ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cathepsin D; Caveolin; Epithelioid cells; Human glomus organ; Vascular smooth muscle; smooth muscle actin

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; CAVEOLIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSOSOME; MICROFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

FISTULA; GLOMUS;

EID: 0030959773     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913129709021941     Document Type: Article

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