Spatial relationships of enteric nerve fibers to vagal motor terminals and the sarcolemma in motor endplates of the rat esophagus: A confocal laser scanning and electron-microscopic study

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 113-118

  Wörl, Jürgen ^a   Mayer, Bernd ^b   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Confocal imaging; Enteric nervous system; Esophagus; Nitric oxide; Rat (Wistar); Vagus; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN S 100; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SARCOLEMMA; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0031035925     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050736     Document Type: Article

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