Amaranthin Lectin Binding in the Rat Colon: Response to Dietary Manipulation

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 146-153

  Atillasoy, Evren O ^a   Kapetanakis, Anargyros ^a   Itzkowitz, Steven H ^b   Holt, Peter R ^a,c  

^a Coll Phys Surgs of Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amaranthin; Colon; Lectin binding; Proliferation; Refeeding; Starvation

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHIN PROTEIN, AMARANTHUS; CYCLINE; LECTIN; PLANT LECTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COLON; FOOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; STARVATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; COLON; FOOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS; MALE; PLANT LECTINS; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STARVATION;

EID: 0032014544     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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