Different thymosin beta 4 immunoreactivity in foetal and adult gastrointestinal tract

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Nemolato, Sonia ^a   Cabras, Tiziana ^a   Cau, Flaviana ^a   Fanari, Mattia Umberto ^a   Fanni, Daniela ^a   Manconi, Barbara ^a   Messana, Irene ^a   Castagnola, Massimo ^b,c   Faa, Gavino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMOSIN BETA4; THYMOSIN; THYMOSIN BETA(4);

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COLON; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN EMBRYO; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE CELL; LIVER CELL; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; TONGUE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; PANCREAS ISLET; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STOMACH MUCOSA;

AGED; AUTOPSY; ENTEROCYTES; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LIVER; MALE; THYMOSIN;

EID: 77949385580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009111     Document Type: Article

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