Distribution of nitric oxide synthase-immunoreactive neurons in fetal rat brains at embryonic day 15 and day 19

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 273-278

  Terada, Haruo ^a,b   Nagai, Toshisaburo ^b   Kimura, Hiroshi ^c   Kitahama, Kunio ^d   Okada, Shintaro ^b  

^a Meiwa Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Embryonic brain; Migration; Neuronal development; Nitric oxide; Ontogenesis

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIENCEPHALON; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FETUS; FOREBRAIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0030004375     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-0618(96)00141-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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