Immunohistochemical localization of neurocalcin in human sensory neurons and mechanoreceptors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-92

  Galeano, Rosa M ^a   Vázquez, M Teresa ^a   Hidaka, Hiroyoshi ^c   Germanà, Giovanni ^b   Vega, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c D Western Therapeutics Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; Human; Meissner corpuscles; Muscle spindle; Neurocalcin; Peripheral nervous system

Indexed keywords

NEUROCALCIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; TOUCH;

ADULT; AXONS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROCALCIN; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECEPTORS, CALCIUM-SENSING; RETINA; RHOMBENCEPHALON; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0342723742     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00950-7     Document Type: Article

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