Abnormality of vascular elastic fibers in the macular mouse and a patient with Menkes' disease: Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical study

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-30

  Murakami, H ^a   Kodama, Hiroko ^b   Nemoto, Norimichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elastic fiber; Electron microscopy; Macular mouse; Menkes' disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELASTIC FIBER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENKES SYNDROME; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; TISSUE PREPARATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSELS; CASE REPORT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENKES KINKY HAIR SYNDROME; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

ELASTIN;

EID: 0036015424     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007950200003     Document Type: Article

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