Increased dermal elastic fibers in the tight skin mouse

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 617-620

  Chatterjee, Soumya ^a,b   Mark, Mina E ^a,c   Wooley, Paul H ^a   Lawrence, W Dwayne ^a,d   Mayes, Maureen D ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Women/Infant's Hosp of Rhode Island ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Collagen; Elastin; Mice; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FUCHSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMIS; ELASTIC FIBER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCLERODERMA; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; DERMIS; ELASTIC TISSUE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 4644301422     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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