α-Smooth muscle actin distribution in the pulmonary vasculature comparing hypoplastic and normal fetal lungs

Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-22

  Barghorn, A ^a   Koslowski, M ^b   Kromminga, R ^a   Hufnagl, P ^c   Tennstedt, C ^a   Vogel, M ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha smooth muscle actin; Morphometry; Persistent fetal circulation; Pulmonary development; Pulmonary hypoplasia; Pulmonary vascular development

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS LUNG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MALE; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PERSISTENT FETAL CIRCULATION SYNDROME;

EID: 0031961640     PISSN: 10771042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/107710498174173     Document Type: Article

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