Vasoactive intestinal and calcitonin gene-related peptides, tyrosine hydroxylase and nitrergic markers in the innervation of the rat central retinal artery

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-374

  Bergua, Antonio ^a   Schrödl, Falk ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood flow regulation; Calcitonin gene related peptide; NADPH diaphorase; Nitric oxide; Optic nerve; Rat; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CILIARY ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA ARTERY; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0042622196     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4835(03)00121-0     Document Type: Article

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