Blockade of Kit signaling induces transdifferentiation of interstitial cells of Cajal to a smooth muscle phenotype

Gastroenterology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 140-148

  Torihashi, S ^a   Nishi, K ^a   Tokutomi, Y ^a   Nishi, T ^a   Ward, S ^a   Sanders, K M ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

EID: 0033033310     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70560-3     Document Type: Article

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