In situ detection of the mast cell proteases chymase and tryptase in human lung tissue using light and electron microscopy

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 483-493

  Beil, Waltraud J ^a,b   Pammer, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chymase; Electron microscopy; Lung; Mast cells; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY B7; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CC1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY G3; TRYPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOADSORPTION; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MAST CELL; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHYMASES; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRYPTASES;

EID: 0035659827     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-001-0339-1     Document Type: Article

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