Nitric oxide synthase-containing neurones and nerve fibres within cardiac ganglia of rat and guinea-pig: An electron-microscopic immunocytochemical study

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-28

  Sosunov, A A ^a,b   Hassall, C J S ^a   Loesch, A ^a   Turmaine, M ^a   Burnstock, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OGAREV MORDOVIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Guinea pig (Dunkin Hartley); Heart; Immunocytochemistry; Innervation; Intracardiac neurone; Nitric oxide; Rat (Sprague Dawley)

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; GANGLION; GUINEA PIG; HEART NERVE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GANGLIA; GUINEA PIGS; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029871717     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050563     Document Type: Article

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