Expression of the high-affinity choline transporter CHT1 in epithelia

Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 18-19, 2003, Pages 2087-2090

  Pfeil, Uwe ^a   Haberberger, Rainer V ^a   Lips, Katrin S ^a   Eberling, Lars ^a   Grau, Veronika ^b   Kummer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Keratinocytes; Respiratory epithelium

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TONGUE; TRACHEA MUCOSA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037470676     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(03)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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