Cellular expression of the gut chitinase in the stomach of frogs Xenopus laevis and Rana catesbeiana

Biomedical Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-99

  Fujimoto, Wakako ^a   Suzuki, Masako ^b,c   Kimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Iwanaga, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; CARNIVORY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME RELEASE; FROG; HERBIVORY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE CELL; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECRETORY GRANULE; STOMACH; STOMACH GLAND; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA; RANA CATESBEIANA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0141580438     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.23.91     Document Type: Article

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