Quantitative evaluation of myenteric ganglion cells in normal human left colon: Implications for histopathological analysis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 336, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-201

  Ippolito, Chiara ^a   Segnani, Cristina ^a   De Giorgio, Roberto ^b   Blandizzi, Corrado ^a   Mattii, Letizia ^a   Castagna, Maura ^a   Moscato, Stefania ^a   Dolfi, Amelio ^a   Bernardini, Nunzia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon; Enteric nervous system; Human; Myenteric glial cells; Myenteric neurons; Paraffin embedded tissue

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; HU ANTIGEN; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN S100B;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; CELL COUNT; COLON; FEMALE; GANGLIA; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349278126     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-009-0770-5     Document Type: Article

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