Special smooth muscle cells along the submucosal surface of the guinea pig colon with reference to its spontaneous contractions

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 143-154

  Nahar, Niru S ^a   Torihashi, Shigeko ^a   Iino, Satoshi ^a   Senda, Takao ^a   Chowdhury, Jalal U ^a   Kobayashi, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Kit; Colon; Gastrointestinal motility; Guinea pig; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Pacemaker cells; Smooth muscle; Spontaneous contraction

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DESMIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; COLON MUCOSA; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INTESTINE CONTRACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COLON; DESMIN; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0031822321     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051106     Document Type: Article

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