Interstitial cells of Cajal in the gastrointestinal musculature of W mutant mice

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-173

  Iino, Satoshi ^a   Horiguchi, Satomi ^a   Horiguchi, Kazuhide ^a   Nojyo, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36849035551     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: 13491717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.70.163     Document Type: Article

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