Ultrastructural studies of keloids

Biomedical Letters

Volumn 58, Issue 228, 1998, Pages 41-50

  Prathiba, V ^a   Kumaresan, R ^b   Babu, Mary ^a   Gupta, P D ^b  

^a CENTRAL LEATHER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Anchoring fibrils; Basement membrane; Hemidesmosomes; Keloid; Tonofilaments; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032356352     PISSN: 0961088X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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