Expressions of various growth factors and their receptors in tissues from neurofibroma

Dermatology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-14

  Kadono, Takafumi ^a   Kikuchi, Kanako ^b   Nakagawa, Hidemi ^c   Tamaki, Kunihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neurofibroma; Platelet derived growth factor receptor subunit; Platelet derived growth factor; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN BIOPSY;

EID: 0033813327     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018421     Document Type: Article

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