Proliferating cells in the rat anterior pituitary during the postnatal period: Immunoelectron microscopic observations using monoclonal anti-bromodeoxyuridine antibody

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-233

  Kominami, Rieko ^a   Yasutaka, Satoru ^a   Taniguchi, Yutaka ^a   Shinohara, Harumichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary; Bromodeoxyuridine; Folliculo stellate cell; Immunogold method; Proliferating cells

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULAR CELL; IMMATURITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; GROWTH HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141993522     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-003-0565-9     Document Type: Article

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