Developmental characteristics of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) immunoreactive neurons in fetal to adolescent human brains

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-202

  Ohyu, Junkou ^a   Takashima, Sachio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Human brain; Immunohistochemistry; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; CELL DENSITY; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FRONTAL LOBE; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 0032191362     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00107-2     Document Type: Article

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