Colonic mast cells in controls and slow transit constipation patients

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-99

  Bassotti, G ^a   Villanacci, V ^b   Nascimbeni, R ^b   Cadei, M ^b   Manenti, S ^b   Sabatino, G ^a   Maurer, C A ^c   Cathomas, G ^c   Salerni, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Liestal Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CECUM; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC MAST CELL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SLOW TRANSIT CONSTIPATION; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLON; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79958134222     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2011.04684.x     Document Type: Article

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