THE COLLAGEN OF PERMANENTLY DAMAGED NERVES IN HUMAN LEPROSY
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 48 (3) , 291-297
Abstract
The collagen of nerve biopsies from 10 leprosy patients was studied by the Picrosirius-polarization method and EM. Leprosy promotes a marked increase in nerve collagen content. Despite the changes induced by this disease, the localization of collagen types I and III in the endo-, peri- and epi-neurium remains the same as in a normal nerves.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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