Distribution, immunohistochemical characteristics and nerve pathways of primary sensory neurons supplying the porcine vas deferens

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-17

  Kaleczyc, Jerzy ^a   Scheuermann, Dietrich W ^b   Pidsudko, Zenon ^a   Majewski, Mariusz ^a   Lakomy, Miroslaw ^a   Timmermans, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hypogastric or pelvic nerve lesion; Immunohistochemistry; Pelvic ganglion; Pig; Primary sensory neurons; Retrograde tracing; Vas deferens

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GALANIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EXPERIMENTAL DENERVATION; HYPOGASTRIC NERVE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; JUVENILE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MAMMAL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VAS DEFERENS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SACRUM; SUBSTANCE P; SUS SCROFA; VAS DEFERENS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0037209430     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-002-0610-3     Document Type: Article

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