Nervous control of the spleen in the red-blooded Antarctic fish, Pagothenia borchgrevinki

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 3 39-3, 1996, Pages

  Nilsson, Stefan ^a,b   Forster, Malcolm E ^a   Davison, William ^a   Axelsson, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; catecholamines; cholinergic control

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH; HEMATOCRIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN;

EID: 0029870780     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1996.270.3.r599     Document Type: Article

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