Sensory neuroanatomy of Parastrongyloides trichosuri, a nematode parasite of mammals: Amphidial neurons of the first-stage larva

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2493-2507

  Zhu, He ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Nolan, Thomas J ^a   Schad, Gerhard A ^a   Lok, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Amphidial neurons; Caenorhabditis elegans; Parastrongyloides trichosuri; Strongyloides stercoralis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVAGINATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEMATODE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASTRONGYLOIDES TRICHOSURI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARVA; MAMMALS; NEMATODA; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 79959744440     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22637     Document Type: Article

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