Maturational and maintenance effects of testosterone on terminal axon density and neuropeptide expression in the rat vas deferens

Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 391-398

  Keast, J R ^a   Gleeson, R J ^b   Shulkes, A ^c   Morris, M J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Androgen; Autonomic; Parasympathetic; Reproduction; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TESTOSTERONE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VAS DEFERENS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CASTRATION; CELL COUNT; GANGLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; NOREPINEPHRINE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PUBERTY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTOSTERONE; VAS DEFERENS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 0037129942     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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