Ultrastructural immunocytochemistry suggests that periderm granules in embryonic chick epidermis contain beta-defensins

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 943-948

  Alibardi, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beta defensin; Chick embryo; Periderm granules; Skin; Ultrastructural immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; EPITOPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CELL GRANULE; CHICK; CROSS REACTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HATCHLING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PERIDERM GRANULE; ULTRASTRUCTURAL IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

SQUAMATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; EPIDERMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84904043798     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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