Light and electron microscopic observation of regenerated fungiform taste buds in patients with recovered taste function after severing chorda tympani nerve

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 713-721

  Saito, Takehisa ^a   Ito, Tetsufumi ^a   Narita, Norihiko ^a   Yamada, Takechiyo ^a   Manabe, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b Shinseikai Toyama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chorda tympani nerve; Fungiform papilla; Immunohistochemical staining; Regeneration; Taste bud; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE EAR SURGERY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; ORAL BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISORDER; TONGUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 81455128928     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348941112001104     Document Type: Article

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