Expression and immunohistochemical localization of the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) in the mammary glands of the Egyptian water buffalo

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 383-391

  Sayed Ahmed, Ahmed ^a   Kassab, Mohamed ^b   Abd Elmaksoud, Ahmed ^c   Elnasharty, Mohamed ^a   El Kirdasy, Ahmed ^d  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

^c Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^d MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egyptian water buffalo; Immunohistochemistry; Mammary glands; Neonatal Fc receptor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; BUFFALO; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLAND; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, FC;

EID: 77953539409     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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