Regional differences in sympathetic purinergic transmission along the length of the mouse vas deferens

Synapse

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-235

  Knight, D ^a   D'Arbe, M ^a   Liang, S ^b   Phillips, W D ^b   Lavidis, Nick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Epididymal; P2X1 purinoceptors; Prostatic; Sympathetic varicosities

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; PURINE P2X RECEPTOR; PURINE RECEPTOR;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VARICOSIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0037334801     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10119     Document Type: Article

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