Evidence for parasympathetic innervation of white adipose tissue, clearing up some vagaries [1]

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Kreier, Felix ^a,b,c   Buijs, Ruud M ^d  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMICAL SYMPATHECTOMY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VAGOTOMY; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; HYDROXYDOPAMINES; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; VAGUS NERVE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 34447647992     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00890.2006     Document Type: Letter

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