Immunomolecular mapping of adherens junction and desmosomal components in normal human epidermis

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 747-754

  Ishiko, Akira ^a   Matsunaga, Y ^a   Masunaga, T ^a   Aiso, S ^a   Nishikawa, T ^a   Shimizu, H ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion molecules; E cadherin; Immunoelectron microscopy; Plakoglobin; Plakophilin 1

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLAKOGLOBIN; PLAKOPHILIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

ACTINS; ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANTIGENS; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; DESMOSOMES; EPIDERMIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FREEZING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; SKIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0346339895     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2003.00083.x     Document Type: Article

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