Psammoma bodies - Friends or foes of the aging choroid plexus

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1017-1020

  Jovanović, Ivan ^a   Ugrenović, Sladjana ^a   Vasović, Ljiljana ^a   Petrović, Dragan ^a   Cekić, Sonja ^a  

^a Medical Faculty Nis   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSTEOPONTIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYOFIBROBLAST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSAMMOMA BODY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; CALCINOSIS; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 77951620119     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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