Preganglionic fibers in the rat hypogastric nerve project bilaterally to pelvic ganglia

Anatomical Record

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-234

  Harji, Farzana ^a   Gonzales, Jason ^a   Galindo, Rafael ^a   Dail, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross innervation; Pelvic plexus; Rat; Retrograde tracer; Sympathetic; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

DYE; FLUOROGOLD; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; DENERVATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; MALE; PELVIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0031711870     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199810)252:2<229::AID-AR8>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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