Ultrastructural characterization of interstitial cells of Cajal in the rat small intestine using control and Ws/Ws mutant rats

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 293, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 277-284

  Horiguchi, Kazuhide ^a   Komuro, Terumasa ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Kit; Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC); Morphology; Rat (Ws Ws); Small intestine pacemaker

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JEJUNUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE MUTANT; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; JEJUNUM; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031874733     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051119     Document Type: Article

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