Does chronic experimental head-down tilt alter intramural innervation density of limb blood vessels?

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-134

  Lorant M ^a   Raffai, G ^a   Nadasy G ^a   Feher E ^a   Monos, E ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brachial vein; Head down tilt; Saphenous artery; Saphenous vein; Vascular innervation

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRACHIAL VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEAD TILTING; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SAPHENOUS ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SYNAPSE; VEIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY WEIGHT; DRINKING; EATING; EXTREMITIES; HEAD-DOWN TILT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944501925     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.R2076     Document Type: Article

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