Absent smooth muscle actin immunoreactivity of the small bowel muscularis propria circular layer in association with chromosome 15q11 deletion in megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 322-325

  Szigeti, Reka ^a   Chumpitazi, Bruno P ^a   Finegold, Milton J ^a   Ranganathan, Sarangarajan ^b   Craigen, William J ^a   Carter, Beth A ^a   Tatevian, Nina ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion; Megacystis; Microcolon; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; STEM CELL FACTOR; ACTIN; ALPHA SMA PROTEIN, HUMAN; ALPHA-SMA PROTEIN, HUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER DISTENSION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CECUM DISEASE; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME DELETION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE MALROTATION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LADD PROCEDURE; LAMINA PROPRIA; MANOMETRY; MEGACYSTIS MICROCOLON INTESTINAL HYPOPERISTALSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; MYDRIASIS; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; SMALL INTESTINE; STAINING; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VOMITING; BLADDER; CHROMOSOME 15; COLON; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; METABOLISM; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PERISTALSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACTINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; COLON; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINE, SMALL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PERISTALSIS; SYNDROME; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 79952049084     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/09-07-0678-CR.1     Document Type: Article

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