Motor innervation by enteric nerve fibers containing both nitric oxide synthase and galanin immunoreactivities in the striated muscle of the rat esophagus

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-245

  Kuramoto, H ^a   Kawano, H ^b   Sakamoto, H ^c   Furness, J B ^d  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Enteric innervation; Esophagus; Galanin; Immunohistochemistry; Nitric oxide synthase; Rat (Wistar); Striated muscle

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GALANIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPERIOR LARYNGEAL NERVE; VAGUS NERVE;

ANIMALS; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ESOPHAGUS; GALANIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PERISTALSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032969117     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051230     Document Type: Article

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