Course and composition of the nerves that supply the mandibular teeth of the rat

Anatomical Record

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 433-447

  Naftel, John P ^a   Richards, Laura P ^a   Pan, Min ^a   Bernanke, Jayne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental pulp; Incisor; Inferior alveolar nerve; Mandible; Molar; Periodontal ligament; Rat; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MANDIBLE; NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MOLAR; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033485597     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19991201)256:4<433::AID-AR10>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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