A developmental study using three antibodies (VOBM1, VOBM2, and VOM2): Immunocytochemical and electron microscopical analysis of the luminal surface of the rat vomeronasal sensory epithelium

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-224

  Yoshida Matsuoka, Junko ^a   Osada, Toshiya ^b   Mori, Yuji ^c   Ichikawa, Masumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Microvilli; Monoclonal antibody; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROVILLI; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0033031928     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050222     Document Type: Article

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