White opaque substance represents an intracytoplasmic accumulation of lipid droplets: Immunohistochemical and immunoelectron microscopic investigation of 26 cases

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-155

  Ueo, Tetsuya ^a   Yonemasu, Hirotoshi ^a   Yada, Naomi ^b   Yano, Shinji ^b   Ishida, Tetsuya ^a   Urabe, Masaki ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Nagamatsu, Hideyasu ^a   Narita, Ryoichi ^a   Yao, Kenshi ^c   Daa, Tsutomu ^b   Yokoyama, Shigeo ^b  

^a OITA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

adipophilin; gastric adenoma and adenocarcinoma; immunoelectron microscopy; immunohistochemical staining; white opaque substance

Indexed keywords

ADIPOPHILIN; FAT DROPLET;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DIGESTIVE TRACT PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CRYPT; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; WHITE OPAQUE SUBSTANCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPIDS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NARROW BAND IMAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84874714211     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2012.01364.x     Document Type: Article

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