Non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic neurons innervating the guinea-pig trachea are located in the oesophagus: Evidence from retrograde neuronal tracing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-40

  Moffatt, James D ^a   Dumsday, Bryan ^a   McLean, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airway; Neuropeptide Y; Nitric oxide; Non adrenergic non cholinergic; Oesophagus; Trachea; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONADRENERGIC NONCHOLINERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CARBOCYANINES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NITRIC OXIDE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; TRACHEA; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0032557536     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00321-8     Document Type: Article

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