Application of fluorescein-labelled lectins with different glycan-binding specificities to the studies of cellular glycoconjugates in human full-term placenta

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Końska, Grazyna ^a   Zamorska, Lucyna ^a   Pituch Noworolska, Anna ^a   Szmaciarz, Małgorzata ^a   Guillot, Jean ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Glycoconjugates; Lectins; Placenta, human

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GLYCAN; GLYCOCONJUGATE; LECTIN; MANNAN BINDING LECTIN; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PLANT LECTIN; SIALIC ACID;

AMNIOTIC FLUID CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE; CONJUGATION; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; FLUORESCENCE HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA VILLUS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STROMA; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0042312592     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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