Human ceruminous gland: Ultrastructure and histochemical analysis of antimicrobial and cytoskeletal components

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

Volumn 288, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 877-884

  Stoeckelhuber, Mechthild ^a   Matthias, Christoph ^a   Andratschke, Michaela ^a   Stoeckelhuber, Beate M ^b   Koehler, Claudia ^a   Herzmann, Sabine ^a   Sulz, Astrid ^a   Welsch, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Apocrine secretion; Ceruminous gland; Cytoskeleton; Immune defense

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 2; BETA TUBULIN; CATHELICIDIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LACTOFERRIN; LYSOZYME; MUCIN 1;

ACTIN FILAMENT; APOCRINE GLAND; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CERUMEN; CERUMINOUS GLAND; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; HEARING LOSS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID VESICLE; MIDDLE EAR SURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; APOCRINE GLANDS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CERUMEN; CHILD; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; EAR CANAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; MURAMIDASE; SECRETORY COMPONENT;

EID: 33747118036     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20356     Document Type: Article

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