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An indirect immunofluorescence microscopic technique using antibodies from rabbits against highly purified myosin from chicken gizzard was applied to various peripheral nerves (cranial nerves V, VII, X). Myosinspecific immunoreactivity was found in the axoplasm, in Schwann cells, in the perineural sheath and in vascular walls.
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This work was supported by grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Un 34/4, Dr 91/1, Ste 105/19). Thanks are due to Ursula König, Renate Steffens and Christine Mahlmeister for skilful technical assistance.
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Unsicker, K., Drenckhahn, D. & Gröschel-Stewart, U. Further immunofluorescence-microscopic evidence for myosin in various peripheral nerves. Cell Tissue Res. 188, 341–344 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222643
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