Mechanisms underlying the neurogenic relaxation of isolated porcine sphincter pupillae

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 505-512

  Toda, Megumi ^a   Okamura, Tomio ^a   Fujimiya, Mineko ^a   Azuma, Ikuo ^c   Toda, Noboru ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ATROPINE; BETA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; TIMOLOL; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINCTER PUPILLAE MUSCLE;

EID: 0033120925     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0631     Document Type: Article

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