Tyrosine hydroxylase and vesicular acetylcholine transporter are coexpressed in a high proportion of intramural neurons of the human neonatal and child urinary bladder

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-160

  Dixon, J S ^a   Jen, P Y P ^a   Gosling, J A ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Immunocytochemistry; Intramural bladder ganglia; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MARKER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BLADDER; BLADDER INNERVATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GANGLIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEURONS; STAINING AND LABELING; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; URINARY BLADDER; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032718939     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00877-0     Document Type: Article

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