Immunohistochemical localization of nitric oxide synthase in rat anterior choroidal artery, stromal blood microvessels, and choroid plexus epithelial cells

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 285, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 411-418

  Lin, Anne Y J ^a   Szmydynger Chodobska, Joanna ^a   Rahman, Michael P ^a   Mayer, Bernd ^b   Monfils, Paul R ^c   Johanson, Conrad E ^a   Lim, Yow Pin ^a   Corsetti, Stephanie ^a   Chodobski, Adam ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior choroidal artery; Choroid plexus; Histochemistry; Immunohistochemistry; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide synthase; Rat (Sprague Dawley)

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RABBIT ANTISERUM; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; DENERVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CHOROID PLEXUS; DENERVATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029791743     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050657     Document Type: Article

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