Specific subtypes of cutaneous mechanoreceptors require neurotrophin-3 following peripheral target innervation

Neuron

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 287-295

  Airaksinen, Matti S ^e   Koltzenburg, Martin ^b   Lewin, Gary R ^a,d   Masu, Yasuo ^e   Helbig, Christian ^e   Wolf, Eckhard ^c   Brem, Gottfried ^c   Toyka, Klaus V ^b   Thoenen, Hans ^e   Meyer, Michael ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c Inst for Molecular Animal Breeding   (Germany)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 13344277362     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80047-1     Document Type: Article

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