Article
Lectin histochemistry on the skin of hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs.
Tissue & cell - 1 Feb 1994
Miyazawa M, Kimura T, Itagaki S
Abstract excerpt
The skin of hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs was investigated lectin-histochemically. Haired dogs were also used for comparative study. In the epidermis of infant pups, lectin staining revealed marked differences between hairless and haired dogs. Griffonia simplicifolia-I (GS-I) bound moderately to the cytoplasm of the stratum basale of hairless dogs, while no binding to that of haired dogs was...
Topics
- Animals
- Dogs
- Epidermis
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Glycoproteins
- Histocytochemistry
- Lectins
- Male
- Mexico
- Phenotype