Aging of the myenteric plexus: Neuronal loss is specific to cholinergic neurons

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-83

  Phillips, Robert J ^a   Kieffer, Elizabeth J ^a   Powley, Terry L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Enteric nervous system; Gastrointestinal tract; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

CUPROLINIC BLUE; DYE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; FEEDING; ILEUM; JEJUNUM; LARGE INTESTINE; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUM; SAMPLING; SMALL INTESTINE; STAINING; STOMACH; TISSUE;

EID: 0038488561     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(03)00072-9     Document Type: Article

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