Ultrastructure and chromogranin A immunogold labelling of ECL cell carcinoids

APMIS

Volumn 113, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 506-512

  Fossmark, Reidar ^a,b   Martinsen, Tom C ^a,b   Qvigstad, Gunnar ^a,b   Bendheim, Marianne Ø ^a   Kopstad, Gunnar ^b   Kashima, Kenji ^c   Waldum, Helge L ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoid; Chromogranin A; ECL cell; Immunogold labelling

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A;

AGED; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN METASTASIS; STOMACH TUMOR; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; CARCINOID TUMOR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOGRANIN A; CHROMOGRANINS; ENTEROCHROMAFFIN-LIKE CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SECRETORY VESICLES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 23144456293     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm_147.x     Document Type: Article

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