Premotor nitric oxide synthase immunoreactive pathway connecting lumbar segments with the ventral motor nucleus of the cervical enlargement in the dog

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-54

  Maršala, Jozef ^a   Lukáčová, Nadežda ^a   Čížková, Dáša ^a   Lukáč, Imrich ^b   Kuchárová, Karolína ^a   Maršala, Martin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascending bNOS IR pathway; Ventral column; Ventral motor nucleus; Ventrolateral funiculus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD ENLARGEMENT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION;

EID: 1242314813     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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