Three-dimensional and ultrastructural relationships between intermediate cells and capillaries in the gerbil stria vascularis

Hearing Research

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 103-112

  Takeuchi, Shunji ^a   Ando, Motonori ^a   Sato, Takayuki ^a   Kakigi, Akinobu ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confocal laser microscopy; Electron microscopy; Gap junction; K+ channel; Melanocyte; Spatial K+ buffering

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CIRCULATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERBIL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRIA VASCULARIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CELL COMMUNICATION; GAP JUNCTIONS; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; STRIA VASCULARIS;

EID: 0035029470     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(01)00252-0     Document Type: Article

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