Increase of colonic mast cells in obstructed defecation and their relationship with enteric Glia

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-71

  Bassotti, Gabrio ^a,c   Villanacci, Vincenzo ^b   Nascimbeni, Riccardo ^b   Cadei, Moris ^b   Manenti, Stefania ^b   Antonelli, Elisabetta ^a   Fanini, Lucia ^a   Salerni, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colon; Enteric glia; Mast cells; Obstructed defecation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CECUM; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON MUCOSA; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION DISORDER; DESCENDING COLON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; MALE; MAST CELL; OBSTRUCTED DEFECATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; COLON; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 84856730946     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1848-y     Document Type: Article

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