Life span of skin fibroblasts in patients with systemic sclerosis

Dermatology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 204-207

  Ohtsuka, Tsutomu ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell generations; Colony forming efficiency; Life span

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFESPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN;

EID: 0031951555     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017899     Document Type: Article

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