Neurotrophin-3 Signaling in Mammalian Merkel Cell Development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-629

  Szeder, Viktor ^a,b   Grim, Miloš ^b   Kucera, Jan ^c   Sieber Blum, Maya ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptor; Merkel cell; Neural crest; NT 3; p75NTR; TrkC

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MERKEL CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL CREST; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0344305663     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10403     Document Type: Article

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