Spinal cord gray matter layers rich in NADPH diaphorase-positive neurons are refractory to ischemia-reperfusion-induced injury: A histochemical and silver impregnation study in rabbit

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 165-179

  Marsala, Jozef ^a   Kluchova, Darina ^b   Marsala, Martin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Med Faculty of Safarik University   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SILVER STAINING; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA;

EID: 0031149927     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6455     Document Type: Article

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