Failure to disrupt development of cholinergic fiber patches in the superior colliculus in nitric oxide synthase deficient mice

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 217-220

  Scheiner, Christopher A ^a   Cork, R John ^a   Mize, R Ranney ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brainstem cholinergic pathway; Immunocytochemistry; Nitric oxide; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0033435126     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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