Intraepithelial infiltration by mast cells in human helicobacter pylori active gastritis

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 251-255

  Caruso, Rosario Alberto ^a,b   Parisi, Antonino ^a   Crisafulli, Costantino ^a   Bonanno, Anna ^a   Lucianò, Roberta ^a   Branca, Giovanni ^a   Scardigno, Marco ^a   Fedele, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; H. pylori gastritis; Immunohistochemistry; Intraepithelial mast cells

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL GRANULE; CELL MOTION; DEGRANULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; ITALY; MALE; MAST CELL; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH MUCOSA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ITALY; MALE; MAST CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 81255193964     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913123.2011.606964     Document Type: Article

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