C-kit receptor in the human vas deferens: Distinction of mast cells, interstitial cells and interepithelial cells

Reproduction

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-384

  Metzger, Roman ^a   Rolle, Udo ^a   Fiegel, Henning C ^a   Franke, Folker E ^b   Muenstedt, Karsten ^b   Till, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MALE; MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; SPINDLE CELL; VAS DEFERENS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 40949141330     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0346     Document Type: Article

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