Crural Herbst corpuscles in chicken and quail: Numbers and structure

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 323-333

  Zelená, Jiřina ^a   Halata, Zdeněk ^b   Szeder, Viktor ^c   Grim, Miloš ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Herbst mechanoreceptors; Japanese quail; Quantitative study; Sensory axons; Ultrastructure; White Leghorns

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; FETUS; FIBULA; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; TIBIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; HINDLIMB; MECHANORECEPTORS; QUAIL;

EID: 0030706039     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050101     Document Type: Article

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