The origin and development of the vagal and spinal innervation of the external muscle of the mouse esophagus

Brain Research

Volumn 809, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 253-268

  Sang, Q ^a   Young, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; CGRP; Cholinergic; Nitric oxide synthase; Retrograde tracing; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VAGUS NERVE;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CARBOCYANINES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NODOSE GANGLION; PREGNANCY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SPINAL CORD; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VAGOTOMY;

EID: 0032476773     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00893-2     Document Type: Article

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