Sympathetic efferent pathways projecting bilaterally to the vas deferens in the rat

Anatomical Record

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 291-299

  Kihara, Kazunori ^a,b   De Groat, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross innervation; Lumbar splanchnic nerve; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GANGLION; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAS DEFERENS;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HEXAMETHONIUM; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030962214     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199706)248:2<291::AID-AR16>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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