Relations between Leu5-enkephalin- (LENK) and VIP-immunoreactive nerve fibres during human drug-resistant colitis. A case study

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 509-511

  Kamińska, Barbara ^a   Gonkowski, Sławomir ^b   Korzon, Maria ^a   Bossowska, Agnieszka ^b   Landowski, Piotr ^a   Majewski, Mariusz ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colitis ulcerosa; Enkephalins; Enteric nervous system; Human; Plasticity; VIP

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CECUM; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON SURGERY; DESCENDING COLON; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LARGE INTESTINE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE FIBER; RECTUM; SIGMOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENKEPHALIN, LEUCINE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INTESTINE, LARGE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE FIBERS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

SIGMOIDEA;

EID: 0347413721     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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