Cellular terrain surrounding sympathetic nerve pathways in the rat orbit: Comparisons of orbital connective tissue and smooth muscle cell phenotypes

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 400, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 529-543

  Smith, Peter G ^a   Fan, Qin ^a   Zhang, Renjie ^a   Warn, J Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic pathways; Electron microscopy; Fibroblasts; Immunofluorescence; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; DESMIN; LAMININ; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; VINCULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORBIT; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0032476535     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981102)400:4<529::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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