Immunohistochemical identification of the pacemaker cajal cells in the normal human vagina

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 272, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-16

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^b   Shafik, Ismail ^a   Shafik, Ali A ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Coitus; Mast cells; Slow waves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MAST CELL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VAGINA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RABBITS; VAGINA;

EID: 21244457655     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-005-0725-3     Document Type: Article

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