Morphological evidence for the existence of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide pathways in the rat islets of Langerhans: An immunocytochemical and confocal microscopical study

Diabetologia

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 978-986

  Alm, P ^a,b   Ekstrom P ^a   Henningsson, R ^a   Lundquist, I ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Haem oxygenase; Immunocytochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase; Pancreatic islets

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCAGON; HEME OXYGENASE; INSULIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PANCREAS POLYPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032798752     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250051256     Document Type: Article

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