Wsh/Wsh c-Kit mutant mice possess interstitial cells of Cajal in the deep muscular plexus layer of the small intestine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 123-126

  Iino, Satoshi ^a   Horiguchi, Kazuhide ^a   Nojyo, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

c Kit; Enteric nervous system; Neurokinin 1 receptor; Substance P; W mutation

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAVEOLA; CELL SHAPE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE MUSCLE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAVEOLAE; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1;

EID: 66049090769     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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