Appraisal of differentiation markers in urothelial cells

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 339-343

  Romih, Rok ^a   Veranic, Peter ^a   Jezernik, Kristijan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Actin; Cell differentiation; Cyclophosphamide; Cytokeratins; Epidermal growth factor receptor; Immunocytochemistry; Uroplakins; Urothelium

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; UROPLAKIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REGENERATION; URINARY BLADDER; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0036899609     PISSN: 10623345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00022744-200212000-00009     Document Type: Article

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