Effect of splanchnic nerve section and compensatory adrenal hypertrophy on rat adrenal neuropeptide content

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-109

  Hinson, J P ^a   Kapas, S ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal neuropeptide; Hypertrophy; Rat; Regulation; Splanchnic nerve section

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; FEMALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0029915424     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(95)00145-X     Document Type: Article

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