Quantitative analysis by flow cytometry of interstitial cells of Cajal, pacemakers, and mediators of neurotransmission in the gastrointestinal tract

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-149

  Ördög, Tamás ^a   Redelman, Doug ^b,c   Horváth, Viktor J ^a   Miller, Lisa J ^a   Horowitz, Burton ^a   Sanders, Kenton M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c Sierra Cytometry   (United States)

Author keywords

CD117; Flow cytometry; Immunofluorescence; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Kit; Macrophage; Mouse; Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Stem cell factor; STO fibroblast

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MACROPHAGE; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH; STOMACH FUNDUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTESTINES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH;

EID: 9644268794     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20078     Document Type: Article

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