Translocation of profilaggrin N-terminal domain into keratinocyte nuclei with fragmented DNA in normal human skin and loricrin keratoderma

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1245-1253

  Ishida Yamamoto, Akemi ^a   Takahashi, Hidetoshi ^a   Presland, Richard B ^b   Dale, Beverly A ^b   Iizuka, Hajime ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA FRAGMENT; KERATOHYALIN; LORICRIN; PROFILAGGRIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; KERATODERMA; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

BIOPSY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATINOCYTES; KERATOSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN;

EID: 0031784191     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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