Soft epidermis of a scaleless snake lacks beta-keratin

European Journal of Histochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-151

  Toni, M ^a   Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta keratin; Immunocytochemistry, immunoblotting; Scaleless; Snake; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

BETA KERATIN; CYTOKERATIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTALUS ATROX; EPIDERMIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; SNAKE; STRATUM CORNEUM; ANIMAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGUMENT; METABOLISM; MOLTING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS ATROX; REPTILIA;

ANIMALS; BETA-KERATINS; CROTALUS; EPIDERMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLTING; MUTATION;

EID: 34948836889     PISSN: 1121760X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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