Cutaneous overexpression of NT-3 increases sensory and sympathetic neuron number and enhances touch dome and hair follicle innervation

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 487-497

  Albers, Kathryn M ^a   Perrone, Teresa N ^a   Goodness, Thomas P ^a   Jones, Marc E ^a   Green, Michael A ^a   Davis, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; EPIDERMIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL COUNT; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MERKEL CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SKIN;

EID: 0029954233     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.134.2.487     Document Type: Article

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