A quantitative analysis of the expression of α-smooth muscle actin in mesangioproliferative (GnMes) glomerulonephritis

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 451-453

  Nieruchalska, Edyta ^a   Strzelczyk, Rafał ^a   Woźniak, Aldona ^a   Zurawski, Jakub ^a   Kaczmarek, Elzbieta ^a   Salwa Zurawska, Wiesława ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

SMA; Immunohistochemistry; Interstitial fibrosis; Mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; FIBROSIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY;

EID: 0346152914     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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