Most anchoring fibrils in human skin originate and terminate in the lamina densa

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 753-763

  Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a   Ishiko, Akira ^a   Masunaga, Takuji ^a   Kurihara, Yukiko ^a   Sato, Miki ^a   Bruckner Tuderman, Leena ^b   Nishikawa, Takeji ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN TYPE 7;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COLLAGEN; EPIDERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN;

EID: 0030962209     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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