Chapter 2 Unmyelinated nerves, challenges, and opportunities: skin biopsy and beyond

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 57, Issue C, 2004, Pages 8-14

  Kennedy, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOPSY; BLISTER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BLISTER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; PAIN; SKIN;

EID: 25144433306     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(09)70338-1     Document Type: Article

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