Nerve endings of the wrist joint: A preliminary report of the dorsal radiocarpal ligament

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1225-1230

  Lin, Yu Te ^a,c   Berger, Richard A ^a   Berger, Evelyn J ^a   Tomita, Kazunari ^a   Jew, Jean Y ^b   Yang, Chao ^a   An, Kai Nan ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fluorescent immunohistochemistry; Ligament; Mechanoreceptor; Nerve ending; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOINT CAPSULE; LIGAMENT; NERVE ENDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; WRIST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; JOINT CAPSULE; LASERS; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MECHANORECEPTORS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE ENDINGS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 33745044777     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20166     Document Type: Article

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