Ultrastructural demonstration of constitutive nitric oxide synthase (cNOS) in neocortical glial cells and glial perisynaptic sheaths

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-225

  Lüth, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astroglial cells; Cerebral cortex; Electron microscopy; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; RAT; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030871952     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0940-9602(97)80105-7     Document Type: Article

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