The digital pads of rhacophorid tree-frogs

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-78

  Mizuhira, Vinci ^a,b,c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Capernaum Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital pads; Rhacophorid tree frog; Rugose pattern; Tannic acid fixation; Van der Waals forces

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FROG; HISTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE FIXATION; TOE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LEUKOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE FIXATION; TOES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; CEPHALOPODA; GEKKONIDAE; HYLIDAE;

CELL MEMBRANES; CHEMICAL BONDS; CYTOLOGY; FLAVONOIDS; TANNINS;

CELL LAYERS; DIGITAL PAD; EPITHELIAL CELL SURFACE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MICROVILLI; RHACOPHORID TREE-FROG; RUGOSE PATTERN; TANNIC ACID; TANNIC ACID FIXATION; VAN DER WAALS' FORCES;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 1642316382     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/53.1.63     Document Type: Article

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