Occurrence of adrenergic nerve fibers and of noradrenaline in thymus gland of juvenile and aged rats

Immunology Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-62

  Cavallotti, Carlo ^a   Artico, Marco ^a   Cavallotti, Daniela ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

6 OH dopamine (6 OHDA); Adrenergic nerve fibers; Aging; Quantitative analysis of images (QAI); Rat; Thymus

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOPAMINE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; THYMUS;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; AGING; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYMPATHECTOMY; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032853005     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2478(99)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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