Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical characteristics of developing human pituitary gland

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 366-376

  Bazina, Mirna ^a   Stefanović, Vedran ^b   Božanić, Darka ^a   Saraga Babić, Mirna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Embryo; Human; Intermediate filaments; Ki 67 protein; Mitosis; Pituitary gland

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MITOSIS; PITUITARY GLAND;

IMMUNOLOGY;

CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 8; DESMOPLAKIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUNDIBULUM; MESENCHYME; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; ORGANOGENESIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

EID: 34748887075     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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