Neurons in the rat brain and spinal cord labeled after pseudorabies virus injected into the external urethral sphincter

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 375, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 502-517

  Nadelhaft, Irving ^a,c   Vera, Pedro L ^b  

^a Bay Pines VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

interneurons; neuroanatomy; urination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER INNERVATION; BLADDER SPHINCTER; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; URETHRA;

EID: 0029903739     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961118)375:3<502::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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