Keratinocytes as depository of ammonium-inducible glutamine synthetase: Age- and anatomy-dependent distribution in human and rat skin

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Danielyan, Lusine ^a   Zellmer, Sebastian ^b   Sickinger, Stefan ^b   Tolstonog, Genrich V ^c   Salvetter, Jürgen ^b   Lourhmati, Ali ^a   Reissig, Dieter D ^b   Gleiter, Cristoph H ^a   Gebhardt, Rolf ^b   Buniatian, Gayane Hrachia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BETA CATENIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL LABELING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN PERMEABILITY; UPREGULATION;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84887212485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004416     Document Type: Article

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