Age-related changes of the noradrenergic innervation of rat tracheo-bronchial tree and pulmonary vasculature

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-255

  Ricci, Alberto ^a   Mariotta, Salvatore ^a   Greco, Stefania ^a   Pallone, Guido ^a   Papale, Maria ^a   Bisetti, Alberto ^a  

^a Dipto Sci Cardiovascolarie R   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Lung; Rat; Simpathetic innervation

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; ENDOCRINE GLAND; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACHEA; TRACHEA MUSCLE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; TUNICA MEDIA; VARICOSIS; VASA VASORUM;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; AGING; ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BRONCHI; FLUORESCENT DYES; LUNG; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; TRACHEA; VEINS;

BRONCHUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031592366     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(97)00105-X     Document Type: Article

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