Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of chordoid glioma of the third ventricle: Its tanycytic differentiation

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 176-180

  Sato, Kazufumi ^a   Kubota, Toshihiko ^a   Ishida, Masaki ^a   Yoshida, Kazuhiko ^a   Takeuchi, Hiroaki ^a   Handa, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abnormal cilia; Chordoid glioma; Ependyma; Intermediate junction; Tanycyte

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUNDIBULUM; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; MICROVILLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANYCYTE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; AGED; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; CILIA; EPENDYMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 0038267658     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-003-0713-2     Document Type: Article

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