Immunohistochemical properties of nerve fibres supplying accessory male genital glands in the pig. A colocalisation study

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 217-228

  Kaleczyc, Jerzy ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^b   Majewski, Mariusz ^a   Lakomy, Mirosław ^a   Scheuermann, Dietrich W ^b  

^a UNIV OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINAL VESICLE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; ENKEPHALIN, LEUCINE; GENITALIA, MALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P; SWINE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0032980320     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050351     Document Type: Article

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