Freeze-fracture replica immunolabelling reveals urothelial plaques in cultured urothelial cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kreft, Mateja Erdani ^a   Robenek, Horst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROPLAKIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREEZE FRACTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; UROTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; FREEZE FRACTURING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; TIME FACTORS; UROPLAKINS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 84863084896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038509     Document Type: Article

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