Number of pericryptal fibroblasts correlates with density of distinct mast cell phenotypes in the crypt lamina propria of human duodenum: Implications for the homeostasis of villous architecture

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 593-600

  Crivellato, Enrico ^a,c   Finato, Nicoletta ^a   Isola, Miriam ^a   Pandolfi, Maura ^a   Ribatti, Domenico ^b   Beltrami, Carlo Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c Anatomy Section ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Histochemistry; Human duodenum; Mast cells; Pericryptal fibroblasts; Villous architecture

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CHYMASE; CYTOKINE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRYPTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DUODENUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE VILLUS; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MAST CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; PERICRYPTAL FIBROBLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ACTINS; CELL COUNT; CHYMASES; DUODENUM; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MAST CELLS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRYPTASES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33744938408     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20325     Document Type: Article

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