The autonomic facial nerve pathway in birds: A tracing study in chickens

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3225-3233

  Schrödl, Falk ^a,b   Brehmer, Axel ^b   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^b   Nickla, Debora ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEXTRAN; GALANIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CHICKEN; CHOROID; CILIARY NERVE; FACIAL NERVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAR; ORBIT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC FIBERS, PREGANGLIONIC; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHICKENS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EAR, MIDDLE; FACIAL NERVE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GALANIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; ORBIT; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 33748123452     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1279     Document Type: Article

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