Increase of growth-associated protein-43 immunoreactivity following cyclophosphamide-induced cystitis in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-92

  Wakabayashi, Yoshihiko ^a   Maeda, Toshihiro ^a   Tomoyoshi, Tadao ^a   Kwok, Yin Nam ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclophosphamide; Cystitis; GAP 43; PGP9.5; Rat; Substance P; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; NEUROMODULIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ANIMALS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYSTITIS; GAP-43 PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STAINING AND LABELING; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0032498221     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00933-6     Document Type: Article

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