Appositions made by axons of descending interneurons in the guinea-pig small intestine, investigated by confocal microscopy

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 151-164

  Mann, Patricia T ^a   Southwell, Bridget R ^a   Young, Heather M ^a   Furness, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Confocal microscopy; Enteric nervous system; Interneurons; Neurochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase; Synaptic relations

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BOMBESIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BOMBESIN; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GUINEA PIGS; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0030940174     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-0618(96)00189-5     Document Type: Article

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