Bovine circumvallate taste buds: Taste cell structure and immunoreactivity to α-gustducin

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

Volumn 271, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 217-224

  Tabata, Shoji ^a   Wada, Azumi ^a   Kobayashi, Takahiko ^a   Nishimura, Hotaro ^a   Muguruma, Michio ^b   Iwamoto, Hisao ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cattle; Circumvallate papilla; Immunocytochemistry; Taste bud cell; Transmission electron microscopy; gustducin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GUSTDUCIN; AVIDIN; BIOTIN; GOLD; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SILVER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CIRCUMVALLATE PAPILLAE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY VESICLE; TASTE BUD; VETERINARY ANATOMY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0141890297     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.10028     Document Type: Article

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