Palisade endings in extraocular muscles of the monkey are immunoreactive for choline acetyltransferase and vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4548-4554

  Konakci, Kadriye Zeynep ^a   Streicher, Johannes ^a   Hoetzenecker, Wolfram ^b   Haberl, Ines ^a   Blumer, Michael Josef Franz ^c   Wieczorek, Grazyna ^d   Meingassner, Josef Gottfried ^e   Paal, Szabolcs Levente ^a   Holzinger, Daniel ^a   Lukas, Julius Robert ^a   Blumer, Roland ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e Novartis Pharma AG Vienna   (Austria)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FLUORESCENT DYE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PHALLOIDIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACACA; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PALISADE ENDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE ENDINGS; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33644805340     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0726     Document Type: Article

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