Rebuttal: Controversial white adipose tissue innervation by the vagus nerve: Seeing is believing [3]

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Berthoud, Hans Rudi ^a   Fox, Edward A ^b   Neuhuber, Winfried L ^c  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDE HISTIDINE METHIONINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

HAMSTER; HUMAN; LETTER; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER; MOTONEURON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; VAGUS NERVE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 34447639208     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00249.2007     Document Type: Letter

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