Differential susceptibility to ageing of rat preganglionic neurones projecting to the major pelvic ganglion and of their afferent inputs

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-81

  Santer, Robert M ^a   Dering, Monica A ^a   Ranson, Richard N ^a   Waboso, Henrietta N ^a   Watson, Alan H D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Major pelvic ganglion; Pelvic innervation; Preganglionic neurones; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTIRELIN; SEROTONIN; TRACER;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CELL CONTACT; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PELVIS; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0037186454     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(01)00366-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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