Functional morphology of pulmonary neuroepithelial bodies: Extremely complex airway receptors

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-40

  Adriaensen, Dirk ^a   Brouns, Inge ^a   Van Genechten, Jeroen ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Airway receptors; Innervation; Lung; NEBs; Neuroepithelial bodies; Rat

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENERVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG INNERVATION; LUNG RECEPTOR; MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROEPITHELIAL BODY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; VAGUS NERVE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037794712     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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