Meissner Corpuscle

One of numerous oval bodies found in the papillae of the skin, especially those of the fingers and toes; they consist of a connective tissue capsule in which the axon fibrils terminate around and between a pile of wedge-shaped epithelioid cells. SYN corpusculum tactus, oval corpuscle, touch corpuscle. (NCI Thesaurus)

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This gene is involved in the regulation gene expression.

MEIS1 wt Allele

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MEIS1 Gene

This gene plays a role in embryonic development and cell differentiation.

Meiotic Recombination Protein SPO11

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