The Meissner corpuscle revised: A multiafferented mechanoreceptor with nociceptor immunochemical properties

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 7236-7246

  Paré, Michel ^a   Elde, Robert ^b   Mazurkiewicz, Joseph E ^c   Smith, Allan M ^a   Rice, Frank L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous innervation; Digit; Mechanoreceptors; Meissner corpuscle; Nociceptors; Primate

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANTIBODY; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PURINE RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLABROUS SKIN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MONKEY; NERVE ENDING; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE;

EID: 0035884906     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-18-07236.2001     Document Type: Article

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