Ultrastructural injury to interstitial cells of Cajal and communication with mast cells in Crohn's disease

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 349-364

  Wang, X Y ^a   Zarate, N ^a,c   Soderholm, J D ^b   Bourgeois, J M ^a   Liu, L W C ^a   Huizinga, J D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflammatory bowel disease; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOPLASM; DEGRANULATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE MUSCLE; MAST CELL; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; ILEUM; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 34248597493     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2006.00894.x     Document Type: Article

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