Fine structure of three types of olfactory organs in Xenopus laevis

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 301-310

  Oikawa, Toshihiro ^a,c   Suzuki, Keiko ^b   Saito, Toru R ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki W ^a   Taniguchi, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Torii Nihonbashi Building   (Japan)

Author keywords

Light and electron microscopy; Olfaction; Olfactory organ types; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SMELLING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CILIA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031706635     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199810)252:2<301::AID-AR16>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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