Immunochemical and immunohistochemical studies on distribution of elastin fibres in human atherosclerotic lesions using a polyclonal antibody to elastin-derived hexapeptide repeat

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 627-631

  Maeda, Iori ^a   Kishita, Sonoko ^a   Yamamoto, Yuji ^a   Arima, Kazunari ^b   Ideta, Keiko ^c   Meng, Jing ^d   Sakata, Noriyuki ^d   Okamoto, Kouji ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Elastin; Immunochemistry; Immunohistochemistry; Polyclonal antibody

Indexed keywords

ELASTIN; HEXAPEPTIDE; OLIGOMER; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALYLGLYCYLVALYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCINAMIDE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BETA SHEET; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTIN; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 38849114310     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: 17562651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvm170     Document Type: Article

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