Origin and neurochemical characteristics of nerve fibres supplying the mammalian vas deferens

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 409-422

  Kaleczyc, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIV OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Nerve fibres; Neurochemical characteristics; Origin; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; MAMMALS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDES;

AUTONOMICS; DORSAL ROOT GANGLIONS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE TERMINALS; NEUROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NEUROCHEMICALS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; ORIGIN; SENSORY NERVES; VAS DEFERENS;

FIBERS;

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; GANGLION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLION; MALE; MAMMAL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PELVIS; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SWINE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032538065     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19980915)42:6<409::AID-JEMT4>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Review

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