Optical imaging of the spontaneous neuronal activities in the male rat major pelvic ganglion following denervation of the pelvic nerve

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 159-162

  Imaizumi, Michiru ^a   Oguma, Yasunori ^a   Kawatani, Masahito ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomic ganglia; Hypertrophy; Optical imaging; Parasympathetic nerve; Spontaneous neuronal activity; Urinary bladder; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION REFLEX; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DENERVATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PELVIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STYRENES;

EID: 0032564704     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00898-2     Document Type: Article

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