A decreased number of c-kit-expressing cells in a patient with afferent loop syndrome

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 390-394

  Kiyohara, Tatsuya ^a   Shinomura, Yasuhisa ^a   Isozaki, Koji ^a   Nakahara, Masanori ^a   Tsutsui, Shusaku ^a   Nishibayashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshiji ^a   Miyagawa, Jun Ichiro ^a   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Afferent loop syndrome; c kit; ICCs; Interstinal motility; Interstitial cells of Cajal

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AFFERENT LOOP SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFERENT LOOP SYNDROME; BARIUM SULFATE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROENTEROSTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; REOPERATION; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 0037852926     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350300069     Document Type: Article

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