Analysis of stem cell factor for mast cell proliferation in the human myometrium

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 411-418

  Mori, Atsushi ^a   Nakayama, Kuniaki ^a   Suzuki, Jun Ichi ^a   Nikaido, Toshio ^a   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^a   Fujii, Shingo ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

C kit; Mast cell; Myometrium; Stem cell factor

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAST CELL; METABOLISM; MYOMETRIUM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAST CELLS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELL FACTOR;

EID: 0031137179     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.5.411     Document Type: Article

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