Clusters of iron-rich cells in the upper beak of pigeons are macrophages not magnetosensitive neurons

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7394, 2012, Pages 367-370

  Treiber, Christoph Daniel ^a   Salzer, Marion Claudia ^a   Riegler, Johannes ^b   Edelman, Nathaniel ^a   Sugar, Cristina ^a   Breuss, Martin ^a   Pichler, Paul ^a   Cadiou, Herve ^c   Saunders, Martin ^d   Lythgoe, Mark ^b   Shaw, Jeremy ^d   Keays, David Anthony ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOSIDERIN; IRON; SIDEROPHORE;

BIRD; CELL ORGANELLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IRON; MAGNETITE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; RESONANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEAK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEAK; COLUMBIDAE; FEATHERS; FERROCYANIDES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SENSATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859894496     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11046     Document Type: Article

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