Double-label immunofluorescence study of glutamic acid decarboxylase in the fetal and adult ovine pancreas by light and confocal microscopy: Evidence for predominant beta-cell coexpression

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-309

  Reddy, S ^a   Elliott, R B ^a   Poole, C A ^a   Ross, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCAGON; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

EID: 0031172694     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1997.6892     Document Type: Article

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