Misidentification of cardiac vagal pre-ganglionic neurons after injections of retrograde tracer into the pericardial space in the rat

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 321, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 335-340

  Grkovic, Ivica ^a   Fernandez, Kate ^a   McAllen, Robin M ^a   Anderson, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Epicardium; Immunohistochemistry; Intrinsic cardiac ganglia; Neuronal tracer transport; Nucleus ambiguus; Oesophagus; Pericardium; Rat (Sprague Dawley)

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; FAST BLUE; TRACER;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIUM; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VAGUS NERVE;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLERA TOXIN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; PERICARDIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 23944469865     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-005-1145-1     Document Type: Article

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