Synaptology and ultrastructural characteristics of laryngeal cricothyroid and posterior cricoarytenoid motoneurons in the nucleus ambiguus of the rat

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 301-311

  Hayakawa, Tetsu ^a   Zheng, Jun Qi ^b   Maeda, Seiji ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a   Seki, Makoto ^a   Yajima, Yukio ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera toxin HRP; Intrinsic laryngeal motoneurons; Respiration; Swallowing; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INNERVATION; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA;

EID: 0032778961     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050281     Document Type: Article

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