Taste cell function: Structural and biochemical implications

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-40

  Ganchrow, Judith R ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Calbindin; CGRP; Cytokeratins; Fibronectin; GAP 43; HNK 1; Intermediate filaments; NCAM; NKA; NPY; NSE; PGP 9.5; Taste bud dynamics; Tenascin; Tubulin; Vimentin; VIP

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL SURFACE MARKER; CYTOKERATIN; FIBRONECTIN; GENE PRODUCT; HERMES ANTIGEN; KERATIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROKININ A; NEUROMODULIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TENASCIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VIMENTIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CODING; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034176117     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00185-2     Document Type: Article

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