Ultrastructural identification of the c-kit-expressing interstitial cells in the rat stomach: A comparison of control and Ws/Ws mutant rats

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 137-143

  Ishikawa, Koichi ^a   Komuro, Terumasa ^a   Hirota, Seiichi ^b   Kitamura, Yukihiko ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digestive organ; Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC); Morphology; Pacemaker; Rat (Ws Ws)

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLGI COMPLEX; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MITOCHONDRION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; STOMACH; STOMACH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; STOMACH;

EID: 0030986854     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050859     Document Type: Article

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