Analysis of the expression pattern of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, neurturin, their cognate receptors GFRα-1 and GFRα-2, and a common signal transduction element c-Ret in the human scalp skin

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 799-808

  Adly, Mohamed A ^a   Assaf, Hanan A ^b   Hussein, Mahmoud R ^c,e   Paus, Ralf ^d  

^a SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Sohag University   (Egypt)

^c ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e ASEER CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; NEURTURIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN GFRALPHA 1; PROTEIN GFRALPHA 2; PROTEIN RET;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCALP; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EPITHELIUM; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWEAT GLAND;

FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURTURIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCALP; SKIN;

EID: 33845598403     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2006.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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