Fine structure of Eimer's organ in the coast mole (Scapanus orarius)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 437-448

  Marasco, Paul D ^a   Tsuruda, Pamela R ^b   Bautista, Diana M ^b   Catania, Kenneth C ^c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Station B   (United States)

Author keywords

AM1 43; Free nerve ending; Mechanosensory; Merkel cell; NF 200; Pacinian corpuscle; Substance P; Tonofibrils

Indexed keywords

MYELIN PROTEIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EIMER ORGAN; EPIDERMIS CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KERATINOCYTE; MERKEL CELL; MOLE (INSECTIVORA); MYELINATION; NERVE ENDING; NEURITE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPANUS ORARIUS; SENSE ORGAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATUM CORNEUM; TONOFILAMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; EPIDERMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MERKEL CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLES; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURITES; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NOCICEPTORS; NOSE; PACINIAN CORPUSCLES; SUBSTANCE P;

MAMMALIA; SCAPANUS ORARIUS; TALPIDAE; VIBRIO;

EID: 34249292948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20511     Document Type: Article

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