Altered distribution of interstitial cells of Cajal in Hirschsprung disease

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 928-933

  Rolle, Udo ^a   Piotrowska, Anna Piaseczna ^a   Nemeth, Laszlo ^a   Puri, Prem ^a  

^a OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

COLON; FEMALE; GANGLIA; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 0036674973     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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