Endothelial and virgultar cell formations in the mammalian lymph node sinus: Endothelial differentiation morphotypes characterized by a special kind of junction (complexus adhaerens)

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-141

  Moll, Roland ^a   Sievers, Evelyn ^a   Hämmerling, Bettina ^b,c   Schmidt, Ansgar ^a   Barth, Mareike ^b   Kuhn, Caecilia ^b   Grund, Christine ^b   Hofmann, Ilse ^b,d   Franke, Werner W ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CD31; Desmoplakin; LYVE 1; Sinus endothelial virgultar cells (SEVCs); Thrombomodulin; VEGFR 3

Indexed keywords

AFADIN; ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CLAUDIN 5; COLLAGEN; DESMOCOLLIN; DESMOGLEIN; DESMOPLAKIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NECTIN 1; PLAKOPHILIN; PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN P120; PROTEIN ZO1; THROMBOMODULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; DESMOSOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MORPHOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SARCOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOSOMES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPH; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 57749195103     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0700-y     Document Type: Review

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