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Fluorescent dye (DiI) reveals the sensory cells in the lingual epithelium: a confocal laser scanning microscopic
1Department of Physiology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Fluorescent carbocyanine dye was applied to the glossopharyngeal nerve of axolotls fixed with paraformaldehyde. Three cell types in the lingual epithelium were transneuronally labeled: chemosensory taste receptor cells and presumably mechanosensory basal cells in the taste buds, and epithelial cells with unknown function in the non-taste lingual epithelium.