Quantitative evaluation of neurons in the mucosal plexus of adult human intestines

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Kramer, Kerstin ^a   Da Silveira, Alexandre B M ^b   Jabari, Samir ^a   Kressel, Michael ^a   Raab, Marion ^a   Brehmer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calretinin; Chagas disease; Enteric nervous system; Megacolon; Mucosal plexus; Peripherin

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; HU PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULITIS; DUODENUM; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE RESECTION; LARGE INTESTINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MEGACOLON; NERVE CELL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYPOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGMOID; STOMACH MUSCLE;

AGED; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SUBMUCOUS PLEXUS;

EID: 79953193787     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: 1432119X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-011-0807-1     Document Type: Article

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