Age-related NADPH-diaphorase positive bodies in the lumbosacral spinal cord of aged rats

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 297-310

  Tan, Huibing ^a,b   He, Jianwen ^a   Wang, Songyan ^a   Hirata, Kazuho ^a   Yang, Zhengwei ^c   Kuraoka, Akio ^a   Kawabuchi, Masaru ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NORTH SICHUAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33947112771     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: 13491717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.69.297     Document Type: Article

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