Ultrastructural descriptions of heterotypic aggregation between eosinophils and tumor cells in human gastric carcinomas

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 145-149

  Caruso, Rosario Alberto ^a,b   Parisi, Antonino ^a   Quattrocchi, Emilia ^a   Scardigno, Marco ^a   Branca, Giovanni ^a   Parisi, Claudia ^a   Lucianò, Roberta ^a   Paparo, Domenica ^a   Fedele, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastric carcinoma; Tumor associated tissue eosinophilia; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL GRANULE; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; TRANSCELLULAR CELL MIGRATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSCELLULAR CELL MIGRATION;

EID: 79960247955     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2011.578233     Document Type: Article

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