Megalin and cubilin in the human gallbladder epithelium

Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-170

  Tsaroucha, Alexandra K ^a,b   Chatzaki, Ekaterini ^b   Lambropoulou, Maria ^b   Despoudi, Kaliopi ^b   Laftsidis, Prodromos ^b   Charsou, Chara ^b   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^b   Papadopoulos, Nikolaos ^b   Simopoulos, Constantinos E ^b  

^a Democritus University of Thrace ^*  (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cholelithiasis; Cubilin; Human gallbladder epithelium; Megalin

Indexed keywords

CUBILIN; MEGALIN;

ARTICLE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLELITHIASIS; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 51749083920     PISSN: 15918890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10238-008-0174-y     Document Type: Article

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