Effect of total or partial uterus extirpation on uterus-projecting neurons in porcine inferior mesenteric ganglion: A. Changes in expression of transmitter-synthesizing enzymes - Tyrosine hydroxylase, dopamine β-hydroxylase and choline acetyltransferase

Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-145

  Wasowicz K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Axotomy; ChAT; DBH; IMG; Met enkephalin; Pig; TH; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; METENKEPHALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERIOR MESENTERIC GANGLION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; UTERUS HORN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; INNERVATION; MESENTERY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA PRIMERS; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MESENTERY; NEURONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UTERUS;

EID: 0037810321     PISSN: 15051773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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