Immunolocalization of the Smooth Muscle-Specific Protein Calponin in Complex and Mixed Tumors of the Mammary Gland of the Dog: Assessment of the Morphogenetic Role of the Myoepithelium

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 247-256

  Espinosa de Los Monteros, A ^a   Millan M Y ^b   Ordas J ^b   Carrasco, L ^b   Reymundo, C ^b   Martin de Las Mulas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calponin; complex tumors; dogs; immunohistochemistry; mammary gland; mixed tumors; myoepithelium

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALPONIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITHELIUM; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0036490847     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: 15444221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.39-2-247     Document Type: Article

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