Vasoactive intestinal peptide- and nitric oxide synthase-containing nerve fibers in the rat ophthalmic artery have different origins

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-130

  Elsås, Tor ^a   Uddman, Rolf ^b   Sundler, Frank ^b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLIONECTOMY; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 0030068443     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00695252     Document Type: Article

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