Subtypes of melanocytes and melanoma cells distinguished by their intercellular contacts: Heterotypic adherens junctions, adhesive associations, and dispersed desmoglein 2 glycoproteins

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 334, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-422

  Rickelt, Steffen ^a   Franke, Werner W ^a   Doerflinger, Yvette ^a,b   Goerdt, Sergij ^b   Brandner, Johanna M ^c   Peitsch, Wiebke K ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadherins; Cell cell junctions; Desmogleins; Melanocyte; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; DESMOGLEIN 2;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ADULT; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DESMOGLEIN 2; EPIDERMIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEVUS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 59449087174     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0704-7     Document Type: Article

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