Elastic nevus with normal expression of elastin and elastin-related proteins mRNAs

Dermatology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-309

  Ohnishi, Y ^a   Akiyama, M ^a   Tajima, Shingo ^a   Ishibashi, A ^a   Seyama, Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buschke Ollendorff syndrome; Elastic nevus; Elastin metabolism

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; FIBRILLIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLAGEN DISEASE; DERMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; NEVUS; PAPULE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SKELETON; SKIN BIOPSY; TRUNK;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELASTIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0032972506     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018138     Document Type: Article

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