Glial fibrillary acidic protein and S-100 colocalization in the enteroglial cells in dilated and nondilated portions of colon from chagasic patients

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-251

  da Silveira, Alexandre B M ^a   Freitas, Michelle A R ^b   de Oliveira, Enio C ^c   Neto, Salustiano G ^c   Luquetti, Alejandro O ^c   Furness, John B ^d   Correa Oliveira, Rodrigo ^a   d'Avila Reis, Débora ^e  

^a Biomedical Sciences Institute   (Brazil)

^b Morphology Department   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas' disease; Chagasic megacolon; Enteroglial cells; GFAP; S 100

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL PROTECTION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DILATATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MEGACOLON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LESION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLON; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEGACOLON; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; S100 PROTEINS;

EID: 58149139215     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2008.04.025     Document Type: Article

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