Dual Innervation of neonatal Merkel cells in mouse touch domes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Niu, Jingwen ^a   Vysochan, Anna ^a   Luo, Wenqin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 3 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL GANGLION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TOUCH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SURVIVAL; MECHANORECEPTORS; MERKEL CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTOR, TRKC; SKIN; TOUCH;

EID: 84898640455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092027     Document Type: Article

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