Morphological investigation of the enteric nervous system in Hirschsprung's disease and hypoganglionosis using whole-mount colon preparation

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 445-449

  Watanabe, Yoshio ^a   Ito, Fujio ^a   Ando, Hisami ^a   Seo, Takahiko ^a   Kaneko, Kenichiro ^a   Harada, Tohru ^a   Iino, Satoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrinsic nerve strands; Hirschsprung's disease; Human; Hypoganglionosis; Transitional zone

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GENE PRODUCT; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM MUCOSA;

EID: 0033012822     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(99)90496-7     Document Type: Article

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