Lack of endothelial cell apoptosis in the dermis of tight skin 1 and tight skin 2 mice

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 581-584

  Sgonc, Roswitha ^a   Dietrich, Hermann ^a   Sieberer, Claudia ^a   Wick, Georg ^a   Christner, Paul J ^b   Jiménez, Sergio A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DERMIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DERMIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 0033020047     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199904)42:3<581::AID-ANR28>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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