Collateral of recurrent laryngeal nerve fibres innervate the thymus: A fluorescent tracer and HRP investigation of efferent vagal neurons in the rat brainstem

Brain Research

Volumn 809, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Dovas, Atanassios ^a   Lucchi, Maria Luisa ^b   Bortolami, Ruggero ^b   Grandis, Annamaria ^b   Palladino, Angela R ^a   Banelli, Elisa ^a   Carretta, Mauro ^a   Magni, Franco ^a   Paolocci, Nazareno ^a  

^a Ist di Patol Generale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Retrograde tracer; Thymus; Vagus nerve nuclei

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; TRACER; AMIDINE; DIAMIDINO COMPOUND 253/50; DIAMIDINO YELLOW; FLUORESCENT DYE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; THYMUS; VAGUS NERVE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; INNERVATION; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LARYNGEAL NERVES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THYMUS GLAND; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0032476220     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00705-7     Document Type: Article

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