A guide to hair follicle analysis by transmission electron microscopy: Technique and practice

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 577-582

  Morioka, Kiyokazu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Electron microscopy; Hair follicle; Keratinization; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CUTICLE; DESMOSOME; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR CELL; HAIR CUTICLE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR ROOT; INNER ROOT SHEATH; KERATINIZATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTER ROOT SHEATH; PSEUDOPODIUM; RAT; REVIEW; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEM CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DEATH; CELL MOVEMENT; HAIR FOLLICLE; KERATINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 66949178382     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: 16000625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2009.00879.x     Document Type: Review

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