The norepinephrine tissue concentration and neuropeptide Y immunoreactivity in genitourinary organs of the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-218

  Tong, Yat Ching ^a   Hung, Yin Cho ^b   Lin, Shinn Nan ^a   Cheng, Juei Tang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Corpus cavernosum; Hypertension; Neuropeptide Y; Norepinephrine; Prostate; Urethra; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0030071601     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1838(95)00088-7     Document Type: Article

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