Pulmonary intraepithelial vagal nodose afferent nerve terminals are confined to neuroepithelial bodies: An anterograde tracing and confocal microscopy study in adult rats

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 395-405

  Adriaensen, D ^a   Timmermans, J P ^a   Brouns, I ^a   Berthoud, H R ^b   Neuhuber, W L ^c   Scheuermann, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; DiI; Innervation; Lung; Neuroendocrine system; Neuroepithelial bodies; Neuronal tracing; Rat (Wistar)

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NODOSE GANGLION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARBOCYANINES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NODOSE GANGLION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031720678     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051131     Document Type: Article

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