Three-dimensional analyses of touch domes in the hairy skin of the cat paw reveal morphological substrates for complex sensory processing

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-171

  Ebara, Satomi ^a   Kumamoto, Kenzo ^a   Baumann, Klaus I ^b   Halata, Zdenek ^b,c  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Axon terminal; Collagen fiber; Confocal microscopy; Keratinocyte; Mechanoreceptor; Merkel cell; Myelinated afferent; Sensory nerve ending; Skin innervation; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKIN; SKIN NERVE; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; CATS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HAIR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MERKEL CELLS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SKIN; TOUCH;

EID: 42749088833     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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