The Spleen Pigment Cells in Some Amphibia

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-127

  Scalia, Marina ^a   Di Pietro, Cinzia ^a   Poma, Mariangela ^a   Ragusa, Marco ^a   Sichel, Giovanni ^a   Corsaro, Concetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Scanning electron microscopy; Spleen macrophages; Transmission electron microscopy; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL OXIDASE; CHOLINESTERASE; IRON; MELANIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; HISTOCHEMISTRY; KUPFFER CELL; MACROPHAGE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENT CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUBILITY; SPLEEN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMBYSTOMA; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PIGMENTATION; RANA ESCULENTA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLEEN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 1842421123     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1600-0749.2003.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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