Connections between nerve endings and epidermal cells: Are they synapses?

Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-4

  Chateau, Yannick ^a   Misery, Laurent ^a  

^a BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Epidermis; Nerve endings; Synapse

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS CELL; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MERKEL CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; SKIN FUNCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPIDERMIS; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NERVE ENDINGS; SKIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0842286543     PISSN: 09066705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-6705.2004.00158.x     Document Type: Letter

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