Connections of Barrington's nucleus to the sympathetic nervous system in rats

Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 117-128

  Cano, Georgina ^a   Card, J Patrick ^a   Rinaman, Linda ^a   Sved, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Kidney; Pseudorabies virus; Spleen

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; TRACER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARRINGTON NUCLEUS; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PONS; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPINAL CORD; SPLEEN; TIME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; KIDNEY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; PSEUDORABIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNAPSES; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0033963426     PISSN: 01651838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1838(99)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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