Article
Expression of the integrin alpha 6 beta 4 in peripheral nerves: localization in Schwann and perineural cells and different variants of the beta 4 subunit.
Journal of cell science - 1 Feb 1994
Niessen C M, Cremona O, Daams H, Ferraresi S, Sonnenberg A, Marchisio P C
Abstract excerpt
Integrin alpha 6 beta 4 is expressed in human peripheral nerves, but not in the central nervous system. This integrin heterodimer has previously been found in perineural fibroblast-like cells and in Schwann cells (SCs), which both assemble a basement membrane but do not form hemidesmosomes. We sh...
Topics
- Animals
- Antigens, Surface
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- DNA Primers
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Integrin alpha6beta4
- Integrins
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neurons
- Peripheral Nerves
- Rats
- Schwann Cells