The extraordinarily complex but highly structured organization of intestinal mucus-gel unveiled in multicolor images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gouyer, Valérie ^a   Gottrand, Frédéric ^a   Desseyn, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MUCIN 2; MUC2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUCOSYLATION; GOBLET CELL; HISTOLOGY; ILEUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTESTINAL MUCUS GEL; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE VILLUS; MOUSE; MUCUS; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STAINING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; SECRETION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; MUCIN-2; MUCUS;

EID: 79954533635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018761     Document Type: Article

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