PS-100 and NF 70-200 double immunolabeling for human digital skin meissner corpuscle 3D imaging

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 295-302

  Guinard, Didier ^a,c   Usson, Yves ^b   Guillermet, Christiane ^a   Saxod, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Confocal microscopy; Cutaneous innervation; Finger; Immunolabeling; Mechanoreceptors; Meissner corpuscles

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN S 100;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMELLAR BODY; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROFILAMENT; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN RECEPTOR;

EID: 0033995939     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540004800215     Document Type: Article

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