Peptidergic and nitrergic innervation of the pineal gland in the domestic pig: An immunohistochemical study

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-320

  Nowicki, M ^a,b   Wojtkiewicz, J ^a   Lewczuk, B ^a   Kosacka, J ^a,b   Majewski, M ^a   Przybylska Gornowicz, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBERS; PINEAL GLAND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 34547350162     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2007.00767.x     Document Type: Article

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