Axonal degeneration and regeneration in rat uterus during the estrous cycle

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 176-185

  Zoubina, Elena V ^a   Smith, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Electron microscopy; Estrous cycle; Innervation; Regeneration; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; UTERUS; VARICOSIS;

ANIMAL; AXONS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GROWTH CONES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYOMETRIUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UTERUS;

EID: 0034332826     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(00)00209-5     Document Type: Article

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