Weibel-Palade bodies as a storage site of calcitonin gene-related peptide and endothelin-1 in blood vessels of the rat carotid body

Anatomical Record

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 388-394

  Ozaka, Takatoshi ^a   Doi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kayashima, Kotaro ^a   Fujimoto, Sunao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcitonin gene related peptide; carotid body; carotid body artery; double immunolabeling; endothelial cell; endothelin 1; immunocytochemistry; Weibel Palade body

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ENDOTHELIN 1; LYSINE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; PERIODATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAROTID BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CAROTID BODY; ENDOTHELIN-1; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; GLOMUS;

EID: 0031050632     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199703)247:3<388::AID-AR10>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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