Co-expression pattern of neuronal nitric oxide synthase and two variants of choline acetyltransferase in myenteric neurons of porcine ileum

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-41

  Brehmer, Axel ^a   Schrödl, Falk ^a   Neuhuber, Winfried ^a   Tooyama, Ikuo ^b   Kimura, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cholinergic; Innervation; Intestine; Morphology; Nitrergic; Peripheral ChAT

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GANGLION; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABELING INDEX; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMALL INTESTINE; SWINE;

EID: 1242314810     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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