Tissue Culture of the Enteric Nervous System from Equine Ileum

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 299-307

  Hudson, N P H ^a   Pearson, G T ^a   Mayhew, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Enteric nervous system; Glia; Horse; Ileum; Immunohistochemistry; Neuron; Submucous plexus

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; ILEUM; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HORSES; ILEUM; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; S100 PROTEINS; SUBMUCOUS PLEXUS;

EID: 0034220892     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006439904937     Document Type: Article

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