A possible role of the plasmalemmal cytoskeleton, nitric oxide synthase, and innervation in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 45-50

  Gentile, C ^a,c   Romeo, C ^b   Impellizzeri, P ^a   Turiaco, N ^a   Esposito, M ^a   Di Mauro, D ^a   Mondello, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Dystrophin; Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis; Nitric oxide synthase; Plasmalemmal cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DESMIN; DYSTROPHIN; LAMININ; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TALIN; VINCULIN;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GANGLION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIKARYON; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYLORUS;

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PYLORIC STENOSIS;

EID: 0032427145     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003830050433     Document Type: Article

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