Effects of denervation on neuromuscular junctions in the thyroarytenoid muscle

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 10 I, 2005, Pages 1869-1872

  Kumai, Yoshihiko ^a   Ito, Takaaki ^a   Matsukawa, Akihiro ^a   Yumoto, Eiji ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Denervation; Neuromuscular junction; Recurrent laryngeal nerve; Synaptophysin; Thyroarytenoid muscle

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LARYNX MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FIBER SIZE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; RAT; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROARYTENOID MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE;

EID: 26944503418     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000177076.33294.89     Document Type: Article

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