Nitric oxide: A co-modulator of efferent peptidergic neurosecretory cells including a unique octopaminergic neurone innervating locust heart

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 325, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 345-360

  Bullerjahn, Alexander ^a   Mentel, Tim ^a   Pflüger, Hans Joachim ^a   Stevenson, Paul A ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colocalization; Locust, Locusta migratoria (Insecta); NADPH diaphorase histochemistry; NOS immunocytochemistry; Unpaired median neurones

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OCTOPAMINE; PEPTIDE; TAURINE;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART; HEART NERVE; HEART RATE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEG VARICOSIS; LOCUST; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GRASSHOPPERS; HEART; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NITRIC OXIDE; OCTOPAMINE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 33745874404     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0188-2     Document Type: Article

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