Intraepidermal free nerve fiber endings in the hairless skin of the rat as revealed by the zinc iodide-osmium tetroxide technique

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 493-498

  Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mechanoreception; Methylene blue; Neuroimmunology; Nociception; Thermoreception

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE; ZINC DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EPIDERMIS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STAINING; THERMORECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; EPIDERMIS; HAIR; HUMANS; IODIDES; NERVE FIBERS; OSMIUM TETROXIDE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0343130511     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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