Ultrastructural descriptions of pericyte/endothelium peg-socket interdigitations in the microvasculature of human gastric carcinomas

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 449-453

  Caruso, R A ^a,b   Fedele, F ^a   Finocchiaro, G ^a   Pizzi, G ^a   Nunnari, M ^a   Gitto, G ^a   Fabiano, V ^a   Parisi, A ^a   Venuti, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Endothelium; Gastric carcinoma; Peg socket junctions; Pericyte

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERDIGITATING CELL; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERICYTES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 61449266748     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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