The Meissner and Pacinian sensory corpuscles revisited new data from the last decade

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-309

  Vega, José A ^a   García Suárez, Olivia ^a   Montaño, Juan A ^b   Pardo, Berta ^a,c   Cobo, Juan M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c Instituto Asturiano de Odontologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Development; Extracellular matrix; Growth factors; Mammals; Mechanotransduction; Meissner corpuscles; Pacinian corpuscles

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAMMALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GROWTH FACTOR; LOCALISATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MOLECULAR BASIS; PACINIAN CORPUSCLE; PROTEIN COMPOSITION; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

BETA ARRESTIN 1; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; GROWTH FACTOR; MYELIN; NEUROCALCIN; NEUROMODULIN; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN BCL 2;

AGING; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEISSNER CORPUSCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STIMULUS;

MAMMALIA; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SENSORY; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; PACINIAN CORPUSCLES; SKIN;

EID: 63449104392     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20651     Document Type: Article

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