Electron-histochemical location of cathepsin D and elastase in the uterus.
Location of cathepsin D and elastase in rat uterus was studied by electron-histochemical method. Activities of both proteinases in the myometrium was detected in lysosomes of smooth-muscle cells, macrophages, and fibroblasts.
Ryvnyak
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Laboratory of Morphology, Nicolae Testemitsiany State University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics of Republic of Moldova, Kishinev.
Gudumak
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Dulgieru
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D000818:Animals; D002402:Cathepsin D / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000201:enzymology; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009215:Myometrium / Q000201:enzymology*; D010196:Pancreatic Elastase / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats
D010196:Pancreatic Elastase; D002402:Cathepsin D