Immunohistochemical evidence for species-specific coexistence of catecholamines, serotonin, acetylcholine and nitric oxide in glomus cells of rat and guinea pig aortic bodies

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 187, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 323-331

  Dvorakova, Magdalena Chottova ^a   Kummer, Wolfgang ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aortic body; Dopamine; Guinea pig; Nitric oxide; Rat; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIBODY; CATECHOLAMINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; AORTA CHEMORECEPTOR; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CAVIA PORCELLUS; GLOMUS;

EID: 24644465066     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2005.03.006     Document Type: Article

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