Comparative anatomy of nitrergic intrinsic choroidal neurons (ICN) in various avian species

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-196

  Schroedl, Falk ^a   De Stefano, M Egle ^b   Reese, Sven ^c   Brehmer, Axel ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Eye; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Non vascular smooth muscle; Vascular innervation; VIP

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CHOROID; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DUCK; EXPERIMENT; FOWL; GOOSE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURKEY (BIRD);

EID: 0345760080     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2003.11.007     Document Type: Article

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