Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical detection of keratins and extracellular matrix proteins in lizard skin cultured in vitro

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 122-131

  Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a   Polazzi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dermal equivalent; Immunocytochemistry; In vitro culture; Lizard; Skin; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYTOKERATIN; CYTOKERATIN 17; CYTOKERATIN 17 ANTIBODY; ELASTIN; FIBRONECTIN; KERATIN; PAN CYTOKERATIN; PAN CYTOKERATIN ANTIBODY; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SKIN; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DERMAL PELLICLE; ELASTIC FIBER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; LIZARD; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PODARCIS MURALIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SKIN; SKIN CULTURE; SUBSTRATUM; TISSUE REGENERATION;

SQUAMATA;

EID: 84857194434     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: 15323072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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