Re-evaluation and quantification of the different sources of nerve fibres supplying the rat eye

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 206, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-224

  Cavallotti, Carlo ^a   Frati, Alessandro ^a   Sagnelli, Paolo ^a   Pescosolido, Nicola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eye; Nerve section; Nervous ganglia removal; Ocular peripheral ganglia; Parasympathectomy; Sympathectomy

Indexed keywords

OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL TYPE; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOROID; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DENERVATION; EYE; INNERVATION; IRIS; MALE; MAXILLARY NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TISSUE SECTION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIDIAN NERVE;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENERVATION; EYE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OXIDOPAMINE; PARASYMPATHECTOMY; PARASYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; STAINING AND LABELING; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 15844425038     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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