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A confocal microscopic study of solitary pulmonary neuroendocrine cells in human airway epithelium

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary neuroendocrine cells (PNEC) are specialized epithelial cells that are thought to play important roles in lung development and airway function. PNEC occur either singly or in clusters called neuroepithelial bodies. Our aim was to characterize the three dimensional morphology of...

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Autores principales: Weichselbaum, Markus, Sparrow, Malcolm P, Hamilton, Elisha J, Thompson, Philip J, Knight, Darryl A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16216130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-6-115