Innervation of intestinal arteries by axons with immunoreactivity for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT)

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-117

  Li, Z S ^a   Fox Threlkeld, J E T ^b   Furness, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intestine; Submucosal arterioles; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Vasomotor neurons

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALRETININ; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BRAIN ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; GANGLION; GUINEA PIG; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; INTESTINE; MALE; MYOTOMY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; STOMACH; SUBMUCOSA; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GUINEA PIGS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE; VASOMOTOR SYSTEM; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031948946     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878297003087     Document Type: Article

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