Selective survival of calretinin and vasoactive-intestinalpeptide- containing nerve elements in human chagasic submucosa and mucosa

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-481

  Jabari, Samir ^a   Da Silveira, Alexandre B M ^b   De Oliveira, Enio C ^c   Neto, Salustiano G ^c   Quint, Karl ^d   Neuhuber, Winfried ^a   Brehmer, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chagasic megacolon; Enteric nervous system; Human; Mucosa; Submucosal plexus; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MEGACOLON; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MEGACOLON; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; SOMATOSTATIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 84871898332     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1406-8     Document Type: Article

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