Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtypes in the Rat Sympathetic Ganglion: Pharmacological Characterization, Subcellular Distribution and Effect of Pre- and Postganglionic Nerve Crush

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-150

  Del Signore, Arianna ^a   Gotti, Cecilia ^b   Rizzo, Angela ^a   Moretti, Milena ^b   Paggi, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epibatidine; Immunoelectron microscopy; nAChR subunit specific antibodies; Superior cervical ganglion; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Bungarotoxin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; ANTIBODY; EPIBATIDINE; IODINE 125; LIGAND; NICOTINIC AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TRITIUM; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGY; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REINNERVATION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0842331314     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/63.2.138     Document Type: Article

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