Demonstration of nerve fibers immunoreactive to peptide N-terminal histidine C-terminal isoleucine (PHI) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in the pig pineal gland

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-147

  Nowicki, Marcin ^a   Lewczuk, Bogdan ^a   Papiewska, Magdalena ^a   Przybylska Gornowicz, Barbara ^a  

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

Author keywords

Innervation; Peptide N terminal histidine C terminal isoleucine; Pig; Pineal gland; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE HISTIDINE ISOLEUCINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABENULA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PINEAL BODY; PINEALOCYTE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0041811861     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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