Merkel cells, corpuscular nerve endings and free nerve endings in the mouse palatine mucosa express three subtypes of vesicular glutamate transporters

Journal of Neurocytology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-376

  Nunzi, Maria Grazia ^a   Pisarek, Anna ^a   Mugnaini, Enrico ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HARD PALATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; MUCOSA; NERVE ENDING; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, ACIDIC; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MERKEL CELLS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PALATE, HARD; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SECRETORY VESICLES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 5544273835     PISSN: 03004864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NEUR.0000044196.45602.92     Document Type: Article

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